Ilijah Barron

Ilijah was 17 years old when he was diagnosed with Osteosarcoma (rare bone cancer). Bone scans later revealed that Ilijah had lesions on his lungs, right hip, shoulder, and spine…

Cole Campbell

When he was diagnosed with Acute Myeloid Leukemia AML) in April of 2020, Cole was an extremely active 11-year-old boy. However, his regular activities…

Anita Robinson

It started as a simple cold, but when the cold was over the lump in her throat didn’t go away. Antibiotics did not knock it down and the lump remained.

Levi Haddad

Jack Podkaminer

Jack Stanley Podkaminer gained his angel wings just 12 days short of his third birthday, after a 10 month battle with embryonal rhabdomyosarcoma (ERMS). Jack was diagnosed in late April 2013, and was incredibly brave and tough through his treatments.

Connor Licamele

Connor was diagnosed with a Wilms Tumor (Kidney Cancer) at 4 1/2 years old, Since that time we still continue our fight EVERYDAY, Things are easier, things get better….

Mary Katherine

Hello my name is Mary Katherine, I was born with stage 4 Neuroblastoma Cancer. Today I’m a healthy teenager at Bishop Ludden, although my treatment left me with a learning…

Caroline Kay Moch

When we welcomed our beautiful, healthy baby girl into this world in January of 2011, we never expected that nine months later she would be diagnosed with Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia…

William Relyea

Following months of concern over obscure symptoms and misdiagnoses, William’s devastating diagnosis of Stage III Neuroblastoma was made in December 2009, when he was 6 months old…

Joshua Meeker

On March 10, 2011, twelve year old Joshua was diagnosed with a rare, fast-moving form of cancer called Burkitt’s Leukemia (B-cell ALL). After a month of illness

Tim Conners

On April 3rd, 2010, at the age of 15, as a high school freshman in Fulton, I was diagnosed with T-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia. My somewhat “normal” teenage life…

Sarah Huff

In December of 2009, when I was a freshman at SUNY Oswego, I was diagnosed with a brain tumor in my cerebellum, the part of your brain that controls balance and coordination.

Maddie Poynter

On June 20, 2009, our daughter Madeline was diagnosed with a rare form of pediatric cancer called nephroblastoma or Wilms’ Tumor. Maddie was 2.5 years old.

Taylor Matt

My name is Taylor Matt. I’m seventeen years old. I am a high school senior and I’m currently battling leukemia for the second time. I was first diagnosed with leukemia when I was eleven…

Naomi Glenister

In November of 2006, at the young age of 16, Naomi Glenister was diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukemia and treated at University Hospital. She spent the next 2 years…

Sophie Kawejsza

Sophie was a 3rd grader at Stonehedge Elementary School in Camillus. The youngest of three girls, she loved to read, cook, show cows with her 4-H group, The Moo Crew, playing ice hockey, and if she…

Craig Rienhardt

Craig was a 17-year-old honor roll student at West Genesee High School when he was diagnosed with a rare and incurable cancer called gastric adenocarcinoma.

Bianca Bresadola

Bianca was a 7-year-old girl from Liverpool, NY, who attended Chestnut Hill Elementary School. She had many special traits which included having an identical twin sister named Mia.

Ben Towles

When I was 16 my entire life changed with one phone call. I had been sick for a while in the fall of 2010 but when an x-ray of my chest was finally taken on January 24, 2011…