Category Cancer Patient Stories

Chloe

Mother recalls the moment that changed her family forever

In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, the lives of the Marzilli family were changed forever. Their 6-year-old daughter, Chloe, was diagnosed with Rhabdomyosarcoma. “It happened accidentally,” says her mother, Courtney. “I noticed one night during bedtime that she had…

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Service dog changes patient’s way of living

Service dog changes patient’s way of living

After complications from a brain surgery left her right side paralyzed at age 7, Hailey, a Dana-Farber Cancer Institute patient, needed support from her family to stay mobile. As she aged, the dependency on her family, specifically her mother, was…

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