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Jimmy Fund Facebook Re-Connects Two Cancer Patients 13 Years Later

April 7, 2017

In 2002, Brittany Flaherty was 15 years old and midway through her freshman year at The Bromfield School in Harvard, Massachusetts. An avid basketball player, she thought her fatigue might be from the stress most 15-year-olds experience while balancing school,…

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Isolation patients bond during treatment at Dana-Farber

June 24, 2015

“People would say ‘I feel bad for her’…I’m the same person that I ever was, but better, stronger,” said 14-year-old Shannon Curley as she reflects on the time she spent in isolation treatment at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. “I wouldn’t change…

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Jimmy Fund Clinic Patients Visit the Boston Red Sox at Spring Training

April 6, 2015

For Kyle O’Grady, it was feeling good enough to get out of his wheelchair much of the time. For Olivia Bowie, it was bonding with a roommate and new friends who understand what dealing with cancer as a teenager feels…

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Jimmy Fund #MomentsWeLove from 2014

January 10, 2015

The doors at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute are open three-hundred and sixty-five days a year. Twenty-four hours a day patients, families, doctors and donors fill our halls and help us pave a path of progress in the fight against cancer. Thanks…

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Patients Celebrate Halloween at Dana-Farber’s Jimmy Fund Clinic

October 31, 2014

While the children of Dana-Farber’s Jimmy Fund Clinic don’t need costumes to be considered superheroes, kids of all ages dress up for the festivities that include trick-or-treating, a pizza party, and a pumpkin-carving contest. The hospital-wide celebration begins in the…

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Jimmy Fund Facebook Re-Connects Two Cancer Patients 13 Years Later

Isolation patients bond during treatment at Dana-Farber

Jimmy Fund Clinic Patients Visit the Boston Red Sox at Spring Training

Jimmy Fund #MomentsWeLove from 2014

Patients Celebrate Halloween at Dana-Farber’s Jimmy Fund Clinic

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