The announcement of the expansion of Promise Fund medical services brought out (front, l-r): Promise Fund CEO Audrey Brown; Promise Fund founder Nancy G. Brinker; Florida Lt. Governor Jay Collins, U.S. Rep. Lois Frankel; state Sen. Lori Berman; and
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Graciela Lara Valverde of Delray Beach has breast cancer and started using Road to Recovery in May 2024 when treatment left her feeling too weak to drive. ’It makes everything easier for me,’ she says of having a driver. Photo provided
By Hannah Spe
Dr. Lindsay Butzer of Clint Moore Animal Hospital in Boca Raton was diagnosed with leukemia in early 2020. She has been in remission since later that year. Photo provided
By Arden Moore
Let me introduce you to Dr. Lindsay Butzer, representing a new b
By Amy Woods
The board of trustees of Quantum Foundation has approved six new grants totaling $424,000 to Palm Beach County-based nonprofits.
The agency’s mission is to fund initiatives that improve the quality of health in the community.
“This gran
The Lady Eagles freshman, junior varsity and varsity teams and rival Spanish River High dedicated their matches to Boca Raton Regional Hospital’s Lynn Cancer Institute. Special guest was Jan Dymtrow, outreach coordinator for the hospital’s League of
Madison Nolan hopes to raise $50,000 by March 8 for the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society in honor of her father, Ed Nolan, who died in April after battling lymphoma. On March 5 she wants fellow students to donate $3 each and wear lime green, the LLS color
Paula Henderson was diagnosed with early-stage breast cancer
on a new 3-D mammography unit. Photo provided
By Joyce Reingold
In fall 2017, Paula Henderson, special events and communications director for the Bethesda Hospital Foundation, met with Dr.
Breast cancer survivor Ellen Crane, director of public affairs for the Cancer Treatment Centers of America, works with Steven Squadrilli of the Boca YMCA fitness staff. Photo provided
A new program at the YMCA of South Palm Beach County helps people
Music therapist Howard Sherman demonstrates a Q-chord digital guitar
with students (l-r) Barbara Kennedy, Jill Gray, Cathy McCormick and Karen Martin.
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By Lona O'Connor
A curious shopper follows Howard Sherman into a
Robert Knapp is retired from practice, but still teaches.
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By Lona O’Connor
Robert Knapp’s medical career spans more than five crucial decades of women’s reproductive health. As a young medical resident back in t
Ken Schwartz with a photo of his sister Susan Wright, who died of cancer in July. Tim Stepien/The Coastal Star
By Paula Detwiller
If someone told you your risk for developing cancer might be significantly higher than average, would you go through
Donna Askinazy, Marilyn Adler and Shelley Studley staff the Pap Corps display table during Boca Festival Days. The event raised $2,000.
Stephanie Robin has survived Stage 4 breast cancer and
is currently undergoing treatment for cancer in her lungs. Photo provided.
By Liz Best
By sheer definition, Stephanie Robin is the living embodiment of a survivor, but she still hesitates to
