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More Than a Patient: How Holly Folgia Turned Her Cancer Journey Into Impact

More Than a Patient: How Holly Folgia Turned Her Cancer Journey Into Impact Holly's journey with stage IV ovarian cancer is one of resilience, creativity, and generosity. As a participant in a Break Through Cancer-funded clinical trial at Memorial Sloan Cancer Center, she is a part of the Targeting Minimal Residual Disease in Ovarian Cancer TeamLab's work to bring new treatment options to patients facing one of the deadliest cancers for women. While undergoing treatment, Holly published a children's book, I Hope You Know, a heartfelt story about the bond between mother and child. She is donating half of the proceeds to ovarian and......

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Emily’s Story: “It Was One of the Last Things I’d Have Ever Expected”

Harvard-trained immunologist and mother of two Emily Venanzi received a shocking diagnosis during Thanksgiving week of 2017—she had metastatic lung cancer. Thanks to the previous decade of research in the field, Venanzi was able to receive a targeted drug therapy that has kept her cancer in-check. Venanzi is now working to advance the next decade of lung cancer research, donating resources, time, and effort to build a ‘dream team’ of lung cancer researchers urgently focused on bringing novel immunotherapies and other treatments to patients. It’s just a cough, Emily Venanzi thought. And maybe some heartburn. But the day before Thanksgiving......

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