Jimmy Fund Blog Stories, News, and Highlights

Now 59, Doug Meehan had been monitoring his prostate-specific antigen (PSA) levels for several years before he was diagnosed with prostate cancer in March 2020. The most common cancer in American men, besides skin cancer, about 1 in 8 men…

September 15 marks the beginning of National Hispanic Heritage Month. At Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and the Jimmy Fund, it is important to celebrate our Hispanic and Latinx coworkers and patients every day, and from Sept. 15 to Oct. 15 we…

Michelle O’Brien’s mother and sister both had – and survived – breast cancer, so it was a surprise but not a shock when Michelle received her own breast cancer diagnosis in December 2020. What was a shock, however, was the…

One of Patti’s first memories was from a hospital bed. In 1965, the 5-year-old was brought to the emergency room after falling on a toy and cutting her chest. Two years prior, she had been diagnosed with fibrosarcoma, caught after…

Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and the Jimmy Fund proudly acknowledge Women’s Equality Day, which is celebrated in the United States on August 26. The day commemorates the 1920 adoption of the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which prohibits the…

Seventeen years after its first appearance in Boston to benefit Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and the Jimmy Fund in 2006, CowParade has returned in 2023 for CowParade New England presented by Herb Chambers. To celebrate 75 years of the Jimmy Fund…