What had started out as local support transformed into a worldwide movement that is averaging more than three donor matches a month to help save the lives of other mothers, fathers, sons and daughters battling blood cancer.
We should be more sensitive to how we speak about and to those dancing on the cancer life-and-death line. Leave the stereotypes and the judgments aside and listen. Let's turn up the love and respect and turn down the need to pounce with our own solutions.
Arturo Martinez was a sports-loving ninth grader at Belen Jesuit in Miami, pulling straight A’s while running cross-country and playing basketball, ...
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The first time I heard the wish was in April, eight months before Christmas, when most children have forgotten that Santa is watching. "Mom, for Christmas, I am going to ask Santa to make you better."
Even though I have the label "terminally ill," I know my chances and my time is what I make it. Medical knowledge has been doubling every ten years and maybe, just maybe, I'll be here when my cure comes.
Last July, Rocky Mountain senior Garrett Karp, an athlete and a forward on the basketball team, heard some news he hadn't planned for. He was diagnosed with stage two Hodgkin's Lymphoma.
Ethan Zohn, winner of "Survivor: Africa" in 2002 is facing a different challenge as of late.
The reality celeb was diagnosed with a rare form of Hod...