Everyone is touched by cancer in some way during our lives.
I grew up knowing about it at a very early age. I was only 7 years old when my Grandmother was diagnosed with stomach cancer.
I watched everything she had to go through, well, as much as a 7 year old gets exposed to. I watched her unable to eat.
St. Jude is one of those facilities that continues to make outstanding work for cancer research. The GNA 12th Annual Country Cares For St. Jude Kids Radiothon kicks off tomorrow and we need your help. But good deeds don't go unnoticed in the world of country music.
Thanks to our amazing listeners here at 'GNA we have been able to raise well over $1.5 million for the kids at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital!
And sure, that's an amazing number, and sure we appreciate all the wonderful things you guys have done to help us over the past several years...
WGNA listeners just like you have helped to raise nearly $1.5 million in the last 10 years for St. Jude. It's amazing what the Capital Region can do when we all work together!
If you or someone you know has had any dealings with cancer in any way, you owe it to yourself to give this a listen. This was an interview with Julie Hart, the NYS Government Relations Director For the ACS CAN Network. All of the audio can be found below
Maybe there will come a day where we don't have to promote another benefit for someone with cancer because will have cured this wretched illness once and for all. In the meantime, however, this family could certainly use everyone's help
Maddy Cruxton lives in England and she has been battling cancer since she was just three years old. She has gone into remission and out of remission over and over through the years and the whole time she tried to live a normal life. She is now in tenth grade and the cancer not only has come back but this time Doctors believe it may be terminal. Maddy's wish was just to be able to go to prom. Her
A simple photograph is all it takes. A woman was looking at her son and noticed that his eye looked a little off. She decided to do a little research and found some videos about what she saw. They led her to how to detect eye cancer in children...
These are the typical reasons why people don't reach into their wallets and give to the most important research hospital ever to grace this planet (with my sarcastic comments in parentheses
It always tugs at your heart strings to hear stories like this, but there is a fire department chief who has been diagnosed with colon cancer, and there's an important fundraiser to tell you about.