…the details of a survivor’s treatment history. A comprehensive, annual health check-up is very important for childhood cancer survivors. Survivors should report any new, unusual, or continued symptoms such as…
…Program at Dana-Farber. Labeling your cancer, and yourself as a patient or survivor, is often one of the most challenging aspects of the cancer experience, they said. Loved ones and…
…Adult Survivorship Program at DF/BWCC to create a Web-based resource to inform lymphoma survivors and their physicians about personalized risks as a result of their cancer and its treatment. Hopefully…
…50 years later, she is serving as inspiration for patients, survivors, and beyond. In 1969, Villanueva was originally taken to the hospital to address symptoms of fevers and labored breathing….
In celebration of Living Proof week, Insight honors cancer survivors with daily posts about survivorship. When I was discharged from the hospital in 1996 after undergoing a stem cell transplant…
…infrastructure needed to better serve their communities in challenging times. So when Carpenter, 63, already the survivor of both a neuroendocrine/carcinoid tumor and lymphoma, learned that a second lymphoma recurrence…
To most people, a flower is just a flower. To 70-year-old Barbara Stinson, flowers represent beauty, energy and positivity. A two-time breast cancer survivor, she has combined her passions of…
Mayor Walsh speaking at the Living Proof celebration. Boston Mayor Marty Walsh recently gave the keynote address at Dana-Farber’s Living Proof: Celebrating Survivorship event. He shared his experience as a…
…but not out. And as she has nursed it back to full health several times since, it has come to symbolize Daniels’ own resilience as a three-time cancer survivor. Even…
…There will always be a piece of my cancer experience traveling with me. Philanthropy is largely how I engage with my role as a survivor. My work with Dear Jack…
…as her “miracle children”—Audette is a neuroblastoma survivor, and it wasn’t always clear that she would be able to have kids. In 1974, a pediatrician thought 15-month-old Jessica Audette, now…
In celebration of Living Proof week, Insight honors cancer survivors with daily posts about survivorship. When Dana-Farber launched its David B. Perini, Jr. Quality of Life Clinic nearly 20 years…
…and, with her Dana-Farber Marathon Challenge (DFMC) teammates, raising more than $4.5 million for Dana-Farber’s Claudia Adams Barr Program in Innovative Basic Cancer Research. Dana-Farber marathoner and cancer survivor Hilary…
…remission, Greelish continues to be monitored in the Adult Survivorship Program at Dana-Farber Brigham for any issues related to her past cancers. As part of the program, she has access…
…three-time cancer survivor had been battling driving rains, punishing winds, and unrelenting cold weather in order to cross the finish line of the 2018 Boston Marathon®. But as she stood…
Lia Scagnoli, 10, is a childhood cancer survivor. Three-year-old Lia Scagnoli skipped across the “Bridge of Hope” connecting Boston Children’s Hospital and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute each time she had a…
…you’re climbing the walls after three weeks?” she said in a recent chat. “I’ve been doing it for three years!” The callers, of course, know Fischer’s story. A survivor of…
…“one step at a time.” That is, when he’s not surfing, riding his mountain bike, sprinting across tennis courts, or winning ski races. An osteosarcoma survivor, Jack credits the rotationplasty…
…new roles: stomach cancer survivor and Pan-Mass Challenge (PMC) volunteer. Each August for 12 years – missing only the summer after his January 2014 surgery – Heller has been on…
…so excited to be participating, not only as a team member and committee member, but as a survivor for the first time,” she says. “I had a lot to celebrate.”…