A Slippery Slope Indeed by Dan Dean At this year’s CancerCon in April—a national cancer conference for adolescents andyoung adults—I co-presented with Amelia Baffa and Dr. Jennifer Giesel a talk on the mental health challenges many cancer patients and survivors experience and the ways to treat them—TheSlippery Slope of Survivorship. Both Ameila and Jenn …
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CAC2 Pediatric Cancer Research Conference – 2016 “From Bench to Bedside and Beyond: Uniting the childhood cancer community in a collaborative forum to advance research for childhood cancers” Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Long Island, NY October 30 – November 2, 2016 The Steven G AYA Cancer Research Fund was honored to award $500 to the …
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CancerCon is a set of two paradoxes: the conference operates likes a living, breathing pair of theater masks and you talk more than normal, but need fewer words to do so. If you’re not familiar with it, CancerCon is a three-day cancer jam held in Denver, bringing together over 600 adolescent and young adult (AYA) …
Hello friends, Most of you are familiar with Steve’s journey through cancer and the fact that he had a LIFE SAVING BONE MARROW TRANSPLANT. And many of you did register with the Be The Match Foundation in hopes of helping Steven. BUT SOME OF YOU DIDN’T….PROBABLY BECAUSE YOU WERE TOO YOUNG or too busy… SO …
Dear Family and Friends YOU ARE VERY IMPORTANT!!! WITHOUT YOU WE WOULDN’T EXIST!!! Through your support the Steven G AYA Cancer Research Fund has reached out and served the pediatric, adolescent and young adult (PAYA) cancer community. We have funded clinicians and researchers in medicine and the social sciences to find better ways to treat …
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CONGRATULATIONS TO AMELIA BAFFA, CLINICAL ONCOLOGY NURSE, AYA PATIENT NAVIGATOR AT RAINBOW, BABIES & CHILDRENS’ HOSPITAL AND SEIDMAN CANCER CENTER FOR HER CONTINUED EFFORTS TO IMPROVE CARE TO ADOLESCENTS AND YOUNG ADULT CANCER PATIENTS, AMELIA RESEARCH POSTER WAS PRESENTED AT THE ACADEMY OF ONCOLOGY NURSE NAVIGATOR CONFERENCE IN ATLANTA, GEORGIA LAST WEEK. OVER 700 ONCOLOGY …
FRIENDS PLEASE REMEMBER THAT SEPTEMBER IS CHILDHOOD CANCER AWARENESS MONTH. PLEASE REMEMBER THAT CHILDHOOD CANCER SURVIVORS BECOME ADOLESCENTS AND YOUNG ADULTS WITH SECONDARY ILLNESSES PLEASE REMEMBER THAT EACH DAY PARENTS ARE MOURNING THE LOSS OF THEIR CHILD AS A RESULT OF CANCER. PLEASE REMEMBER THAT PEDIATRIC CANCER IS THE #1 DISEASE RELATED KILLER OF KIDS …
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YOU ARE INVITED TO EMILY’S RAINBOW RUN and Family Walk In honor of the Memory of our friend Emily Lewis The event will take place Sunday, April 19th, 2015 Westlake High School Westlake, Ohio 44145 4 MILE TIME RACE starts at 8 am 2 MILE RUN/WALK starts at 8:05 am Kids Run starts approximately at …
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Hi folks, As I sit here watching Neptune dump another 6 inches of snow, I remember a time when Steve was in the hospital during a mega February snow storm. Harry was supposed to stay the night and I was going home…however, the weather was so incredibly awful, I just decided to remain safe in …
Be Calm Stay Strong Package for YA Cancer Patients in NE Ohio. We have raised $2105 for the BE CALM STAY STRONG PACKAGES. SO MANY PEOPLE TO THANK. HERE ARE THE NAMES OF THE PEOPLE WHO HAVE CONTRIBUTED TO THE CONTENTS: Judi Kackloudis Becky Prince John & Christine Steigerwald Lisa Lee George & Jan Giallourakis …
