SURVIVORS

Cancer survivors, siblings miss more school days

August 16, 2012|By Andrew M. Seaman | Reuters

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Years after they were first diagnosed, childhood cancer survivors - along with their brothers and sisters - missed twice as many 

school days as other kids, according to a new study.

Researchers found that childhood cancer survivors and their siblings missed - on average - 10 days of school during the 2009 academic year, while other students in the sameschool district missed an average of five days

Cancer survivors celebrate life

CANCER SURVIVORS CLEBRATE LIFE

It was a symbolic day in Zion on Friday as dozens of cancer survivors marked a fifth year of being cancer-free by planting a Bradford pear tree and releasing colorful butterflies on grounds near the Cancer Treatment Centers of America. Survivors planted one tree on the grounds at 2520 Elisha Ave., and the hospital donated money to the Zion Park District to be used to plant 86 more trees--one for each hospital patient who has beaten cancer for five years, hospital representatives said.

Volunteers: Mother and son, both cancer survivors, to kick off Relay for Life

On Dec. 17, 2001, Anna Roeser's life changed forever. It was the day the Libertyville mother of three and her husband, Mike, learned that their 3-year-old son, Gus, had leukemia.

The family's joy when Gus completed 2 1/2 years of chemotherapy in June 2004 was short-lived. Six months later, Anna was diagnosed with an aggressive case of Stage II breast cancer.

NEWS

Young filmmakers hit the road, chronicling cancer survivors

By Ted Gregory, Chicago Tribune reporter | August 8, 2012

He sat there thinking about killing himself, a seventh-grader who'd come through the life and death struggle of cancer unable to endure the next part, the part about surviving. Evan Bartlett's growth was stunted by treatment he underwent for cancer he was diagnosed with at 3 1/2 months of age. Over the years, he'd become marooned in special education even though he was certain he could handle mainstream class work. He'd gone through seven years of speech therapy,

FEATURES

Sheri Prentiss, breast cancer survivor

By Jenniffer Weigel, Tribune Newspapers | October 13, 2013

Since she was a little girl, Sheri Prentiss knew she wanted to be a doctor. "My parents would remind me - if you want to be a doctor, you have to work harder than the other kids," says Prentiss, 45 (whose name, until her Oct. 1 marriage to Donald Prentiss, was Sheri Phillips). "So I was always looking ahead to that goal of becoming a physician for as long as I can remember. " Prentiss graduated from Northwestern University in 1989 with a bachelor of arts in psychology and premedica