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Halfway Normal: A September Story

child in hospital bed with adult in the background

September is when most children are settling into a new school year, but for some children, those 16,000 who are diagnosed each year with childhood cancer, September is different.

Cancer Is My Testimony

Hearing the words, “You have cancer” is life changing. For Essence, the timing was especially tough.

My Eight-Year-Old Taught Me to Love Fundraising

Patty and Joe Cavallo

Fundraising quickly became a family event in our home while Sienna was on treatment – her “stoop sales” on the front steps of our Brooklyn home and Sunday lemonade stands became famous.