Guest Post: Cancer Caregiving Is So Many Things
Patient StoriesJulie and Peter Peter and I walked down the aisle at Oceancliff mansion in Newport on a crisp September afternoon in 2004 with the ocean breeze at our...
Blog
Filter blog posts by
“It Takes A Village” – Empower Retirement Backs N.E. Cancer Patients Through JAF Bridge Builder Sponsorship
PartnershipsThe saying, “It takes a village” has never rung truer for both our team at the Joe Andruzzi Foundation and patients facing a cancer diagnosis in the...
Life and Death Decisions: Financial Toxicity & Cancer Treatment
Team JAFDr. Muzaffar Qazilbash, Professor, Department of Stem Cell Transplantation, Division of Cancer Medicine, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer...
Three times diagnosed with cancer. Never a symptom. This is Robyn’s story.
Patient StoriesRobyn Stewart has had cancer three times, but she’s never had a symptom. Not a single one. Oddly enough, there’s a reasonable explanation for this,...
Fighting to Keep Her Home During Cancer Treatment
Patient StoriesKatie Centola personifies strength and independence in all aspects of her life, and a breast cancer diagnosis certainly was not going to make her waver in...
“Financial toxicity exists, but nobody truly understands until you’re living with it”
Patient StoriesIf you had told Kristen Benjamin two years ago that she would become an advocate for pediatric cancer patient research or work to educate the public about...
National Social Work Month Q&A with Bonnie Indeck of Smilow Cancer Hospital
PartnershipsMarch is national Social Work month and the theme for this year is “Social Workers - Generations Strong”. To highlight the incredible work of our...
“I Thought I Could Do It All On My Own”
Patient StoriesEarly in 2018, life was moving along pretty nicely for Jonathan Oates. He and his girlfriend Anna, both paramedics, had just bought a house, and both...
Together We Can Do So Much
Events"Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much." - Helen Keller To meet the ever-increasing needs of cancer patients and their families...
“I Was My First Patient”
Patient StoriesJasmine was a hardworking student who always had one goal in mind: medical school. Being accepted into the University of Connecticut Medical School was...