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People’s Voice Media is a innovative social enterprise, based in Manchester, UK, that works in local communities. We believe in the power of social media to get communities talking to each other, to spread news, and to give everyone a voice and a platform from which to use that voice. For more information please visit our website http://peoples-voice-media.co.uk/
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Sarah Laffey, 27, neuroblastoma, Charlestown · In 2015, Sarah’s right eye swelled shut and she went to the hospital in Colorado, where she was living at the time. She was having lower back pain as well so the doctors did a CT scan, which revealed neuroblastoma. · Her treatment has included chemotherapy, immunotherapy, and radiation. She has had sev…
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Send us a text The 1994 Movie Natural Born Killers, spurred many real life nightmares. Michael Freeman 21, of leafy Avon, Massachusetts, was apparently easily influenced. He recruited two dim witted friends Leonard Stanely 21, of Easton,Ma. and Patrick Morse 19, of Middleboro for murder. The mayberry-like town of Avon, would never be the same. Natu…
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Send us a text One of the saddest cases in recent memory. Sandra Birchmore joined the Stoughton, Mass police explorers program at 13-14. Sandra's family had been looking for a positive male role model, for thirteen year old Sandra. She had a difficult home life and the family thought they had found, that role model, with the leader of the explorers…
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Send us a text (REPLAY) In order to believe Sean Ellis is innocent, you'd have to believe, the Boston Police Forensic Unit, took Letia Walker's fingerprints at the courthouse and then proceeded to place a print on the gun that killed Det Mulligan. Did the technology to conduct this conspiracy exist in 1993? Does it even exist now? Letia Walker, Sea…
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· During the summer in 2022, Emelie was swimming with her siblings, Olivia and Liam. When they came inside for lunch, Emelie screamed and cried from pain. Her family took her to the local emergency room where it was confirmed she had masses on her kidneys. The family went to Boston where Emelie was diagnosed with Bilateral Wilms Tumors, a form of k…
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· When Leilani was 4 months old, they noticed a lump in her neck. Her pediatrician ordered an x-ray, which revealed several tumors, including in her chest. · Her treatment has included chemotherapy as well as surgery to remove tumors. · Her family is enjoying a treatment-free summer ahead of her upcoming scans in September. They are hoping to be ca…
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Mason was experiencing back pain that continued for three months. Then one day, Mason couldn’t walk or get out of his bed. His family took him to the hospital where he was diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukemia in March of this year. · Mason’s treatments have been tough, and they’re expected to last for two years as he continues to need many p…
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Calista had aches and pains in her legs, lower back, and shoulder. In July 2023, she developed a fever which continued for a week, accompanied by fatigue, severe lower back and stomach pain and difficulty lifting her arms. She had lab work done to rule out viruses and infections. Her family took Calista to the emergency room where lab work confirme…
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Max was diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukemia in 2014. His doctors thought he was having recurrent ear infections and then they noticed his stomach had become distended. His pediatrician suggested blood work, which revealed leukemia. · His treatment included chemotherapy, and he is slated to complete treatment in September. · Max enjoys lacro…
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Kristen Van de Geer was living in Alaska, where her husband was stationed in the Coast Guard, and was experiencing stomach pains. As a teenager, she was diagnosed with irritable bowel syndrome or IBS, but with a family history of colon cancer and her mother’s passing in 2017 from gallbladder cancer, she wanted to be sure that nothing else was wrong…
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Following a typical, fun night out with friends Ryan woke up the next morning with severe stomach pains. He went to urgent care the same morning where scans revealed several masses in his stomach. Additional biopsies confirmed that Ryan had Desmoplastic Small Round Cell Tumor or DSRCT, a type of sarcoma that forms in the body’s connective tissue. ·…
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· Cecilia was diagnosed with optical pathways glioma in November 2023. Her mom had noticed that one of her eyes was moving differently than the other eye. Her pediatrician sent her to the hospital where doctors discovered a tumor in her eye. · Cecilia’s treatment has included chemotherapy and surgery. · Her mom, April, homeschools Cecilia and her t…
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Before cancer touched Robb, it impacted his family when both his mother and father were diagnosed with the disease. In 2013, Robb’s mother was diagnosed with T-Cell Lymphoma and treated at Dana-Farber, by Dr. Philippe Armand, before passing gracefully in 2017. Three months later, Robb’s father was diagnosed with bladder cancer and began treatment w…
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Nicole Olivera: ? 7 Years worked for Flynn Applebee’s ? General Manager of Westfield, MA Applebee’s ? Store raised $3100 for Jimmy Fund ? In 2000, my grandmother was diagnosed with lymphoma. She was treated at St. Elizabeth's Hospital in Brighton and at some point the Hematology-Oncology Department at Dana Farber took over. She received chemotherap…
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In January 2018, at 8 months old while living in Puerto Rico, Lia suddenly lost movement and sensation from her hips down. She began treatment in Puerto Rico, but their experience wasn't the best, and one of the doctors told Lia’s mom that her tumor was very rare. Her mom conducted research and learned that Dana-Farber was one of the best places to…
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Phaedra was 14 years old and sitting in her high school nurse’s office. The nurse noticed her pupils were dilated different sizes and called Phaedra’s mom, recommending she get checked out by a doctor. At the hospital, it was discovered that they had a benign tumor, which was promptly resected. Scans a few years later at 17 indicated that there wer…
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Jenn Perry discovered her breast cancer like many women do: finding a lump. She had a biopsy which confirmed a tumor. But Jenn is not like most breast cancer patients and survivors. Jenn has an inherited genetic syndrome known as Li-Fraumeni Syndrome (LFS). When Jenn was treated for breast cancer, she didn’t know what LFS was. She just knew there w…
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Kevin M. Haigis, PhD, joined Dana-Farber as Chief Scientific Officer in 2020. Prior to assuming this role, Dr. Haigis was Director of Cancer Genetics at Beth Israel Deaconess Cancer Center. Dr. Haigis received his PhD in genetics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and did post-doctoral work at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where …
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Two miles there and two miles back. That’s the distance John Warner would walk from his Back Bay home to Dana-Farber to keep himself in shape while in treatment for renal cell carcinoma, or kidney cancer. John was diagnosed in the winter of 2021. John experienced blood in his urine which led to a scan at his physical. That scan revealed a tumor bet…
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Craig Bunnell, MD, MPH, MBA, is the Morse Family Chief Medical Officer of the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, an NCI-designated Comprehensive Cancer Center and Harvard Medical School-affiliated teaching hospital. In this role, Dr. Bunnell oversees adult and pediatric clinical services at Dana-Farber. Under his leadership, the Institute has become a l…
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Dr. Jänne received his MD and PhD from the University of Pennsylvania in 1996. He completed postgraduate training in internal medicine at Brigham and Women's Hospital and in medical oncology at DFCI in 2001. He is the Senior Vice President for Translational Medicine and the Scientific Director of the Belfer Center for Applied Cancer Science. His ma…
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In June 2018, Gloria was playing golf when she realized something was wrong. Her primary care doctor was alarmed when Gloria asked to bump up her physical and arranged for an immediate appointment and blood tests, which revealed she had Acute lymphocytic leukemia. · Referred to Dana-Farber by her son, a physician, Gloria began a grueling chemothera…
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The Dubowik household came down with the flu. While everyone else recovered, Evelyn got worse and had “bizarre” bruising. Her mother took her to the emergency room for difficulty breathing. After some lab work, doctors discovered she had cancer. · Evelyn is in a two-year treatment plan and went from “standard risk” to “high risk” when she didn’t hi…
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Nine years ago, Joel was diagnosed with prostate cancer at his annual wellness exam while living in Connecticut; his best friend was his urologist at the time. He began making regular visits to Boston to get treated at Dana-Farber. Dr. Mark Pomerantz is a medical oncologist and Clinical Director for the Lank Center for Genitourinary Oncology at Dan…
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Paul Mossberg, 58, esophageal cancer, Brookline, with Melissa Levin, MSW, LICSW, Senior Clinical Social Worker and Programmatic Specialist for the Neuro-Inclusive Oncology Care and Empowerment Program, Dana-Farber.By Audacy
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Dr. Meyerhardt is the Chief Clinical Officer for Dana-Farber and Co-Director of the Colon and Rectal Cancer Center as a medical oncologist specializing in cancers in the GI tract. He is also the Douglas Gray Woodruff Chair in Colorectal Cancer Research and a Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Meyerhardt received his MD from Yale S…
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Anne Gross, PhD, RN, FAAN, is senior vice president for patient care services and chief nursing officer. Dr. Gross is responsible for adult and pediatric nursing practice across all sites of care at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, The Phyllis F. Cantor Center for Research in Nursing and Patient Care Services, and the Center for Clinical and Professio…
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Laurie H. Glimcher, MD, was named President and CEO of Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in 2016. She is also Director of the Dana-Farber/Harvard Cancer Center and the Richard and Susan Smith Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School. Previously, she was the Stephen and Suzanne Weiss Dean and Professor of Medicine of Weill Cornell Medicine and Pro…
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In early 2020, it became difficult for Clinton to eat. It was during the pandemic and much harder at the time to see a doctor, so it took a while before he was able to get checked out. In January 2021, Clinton was diagnosed with esophageal cancer that metastasized into his lungs. His treatment included six months on a feeding tube, chemotherapy and…
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Dr. Hartley-Brown's clinical area of focus is treating patients with Multiple Myeloma. This is an incurable blood cancer, that affects African Americans more prevalently than other ethnic populations. She also practices clinical research, mainly in the relapsed refractory myeloma disease setting. Dr. Hartley-Brown actively participates as a princip…
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Jaimey was diagnosed with prostate cancer in 2008. He was treated and received a clean bill of health and remained cancer-free. In May 2015, a routine blood donation led to a life-changing discovery when the Red Cross director urged him to seek immediate medical attention. Jaimey was diagnosed with chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL), which, contrar…
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Brock Holt nicknamed, “The Brock Star” is a former Major League Baseball utility player who played for the Boston Red Sox (2013–2019). He served as the Jimmy Fund Captain from 2015-2019 and has been a long-time supporter of Dana-Farber’s fundraising efforts. After serving as Jimmy Fund Captain, Holt and Lakyn have remained steadfast supporters of D…
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