Team Friends for Life's PMC
Team Friends for Life's PMC
OUR PMC Total
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$63,230.50
PMC ID - TF0059
Why I Ride ...
The Friends For Life PMC team was started by the parents of a four and a half year old cancer survivor. It represents only a small part of their efforts to take the horrible experience of childhood cancer and turn it into an inspiration to do something that could provide hope to other families forced to take the same journey.
This is their story.
On July 6th, 2001 our daughter Isabelle was diagnosed with stage III neuroblastoma- a cancer of the nervous tissue that usually strikes children between the age of one and two.
On that morning, the unimaginable became painful reality.
Over the next 18 months, Isabelle endured multiple courses of inpatient chemotherapy, several surgeries, weeks of radiation treatment, and a month long hospitalization for a stem cell transplant. Today, Isabelle's cancer is in remission. She is a beautiful young girl, full of love and life. We are very grateful to the medical staff and researchers who saved Isabelle's life.
Having experienced the world of childhood cancer first hand, we will always be a part of it. We are part of the lives of the children who were saved, and also of those who were not. We are grateful for the faith and friendship that was offered to us by afflicted families during treatment, and since.
Many families affected by childhood cancer, like us, want to make a difference in the lives of sick children and their families. When we work together, there are no limits to the creative power of people who fight for healthy, happy children.
Every month we visit our hospital to offer coffee and share the story of Isabelle's recovery to newly diagnosed families. We wish to return the favor that was earlier offered to us by families who made a difference in our lives- who made our journey easier.
We have joined the Pediatric Family Advisory Council at our hospital. We do so to help us and others bridge the gap between between "on treatment" and "off treatment" lifestyle adjustment to cancer.
We have participated actively in fundraising activities for pediatric cancer research at our treating hospital. On February 14th of 2003 (Valentines Day), we established the "Friends for Life Neuroblastoma Endowed Fellowship" to advance the study of the cancer that struck our child. When this endowment reaches a million dollars, it will support a permanent researcher at Dana Farber whose sole responsibility will be to develop treatments for neuroblastoma. All money raised by the Friends For Life team goes to the endowment.
Our hope is that other families, friends, and caregivers who are touched by childhood cancer will join one another in whatever forms of creative, social, or artistic expression that will help bring "good" things out of the "bad" that originally brought us all together.
To learn more about Friends For Life, please visit http://www.myfriendsforlife.com.
If you have any questions or if you would like to join our PMC team, please send email to denysed@myfriendsforlife.com. We would love to have you.
Thanks!!
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Why I Ride ...
The Friends For Life PMC team was started by the parents of a four and a half year old cancer survivor. It represents only a small part of their efforts to take the horrible experience of childhood cancer and turn it into an inspiration to do something that could provide hope to other families forced to take the same journey.
This is their story.
On July 6th, 2001 our daughter Isabelle was diagnosed with stage III neuroblastoma- a cancer of the nervous tissue that usually strikes children between the age of one and two.
On that morning, the unimaginable became painful reality.
Over the next 18 months, Isabelle endured multiple courses of inpatient chemotherapy, several surgeries, weeks of radiation treatment, and a month long hospitalization for a stem cell transplant. Today, Isabelle's cancer is in remission. She is a beautiful young girl, full of love and life. We are very grateful to the medical staff and researchers who saved Isabelle's life.
Having experienced the world of childhood cancer first hand, we will always be a part of it. We are part of the lives of the children who were saved, and also of those who were not. We are grateful for the faith and friendship that was offered to us by afflicted families during treatment, and since.
Many families affected by childhood cancer, like us, want to make a difference in the lives of sick children and their families. When we work together, there are no limits to the creative power of people who fight for healthy, happy children.
Every month we visit our hospital to offer coffee and share the story of Isabelle's recovery to newly diagnosed families. We wish to return the favor that was earlier offered to us by families who made a difference in our lives- who made our journey easier.
We have joined the Pediatric Family Advisory Council at our hospital. We do so to help us and others bridge the gap between between "on treatment" and "off treatment" lifestyle adjustment to cancer.
We have participated actively in fundraising activities for pediatric cancer research at our treating hospital. On February 14th of 2003 (Valentines Day), we established the "Friends for Life Neuroblastoma Endowed Fellowship" to advance the study of the cancer that struck our child. When this endowment reaches a million dollars, it will support a permanent researcher at Dana Farber whose sole responsibility will be to develop treatments for neuroblastoma. All money raised by the Friends For Life team goes to the endowment.
Our hope is that other families, friends, and caregivers who are touched by childhood cancer will join one another in whatever forms of creative, social, or artistic expression that will help bring "good" things out of the "bad" that originally brought us all together.
To learn more about Friends For Life, please visit http://www.myfriendsforlife.com.
If you have any questions or if you would like to join our PMC team, please send email to denysed@myfriendsforlife.com. We would love to have you.
Thanks!!
Our Supporters
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Our History
| 2025 |
$63,230.50 |
PMC Team |
| 2024 |
$160,685.78 |
PMC Team |
| 2023 |
$220,413.82 |
PMC Team |
| 2022 |
$163,098.07 |
PMC Team |
| 2021 |
$167,555.60 |
PMC Team |
| 2020 |
$42,473.55 |
PMC Team |
| 2019 |
$132,352.67 |
PMC Team |
| 2018 |
$116,797.23 |
PMC Team |
| 2017 |
$111,346.13 |
PMC Team |
| 2016 |
$109,182.24 |
PMC Team |
| 2015 |
$139,899.70 |
PMC Team |
| 2014 |
$151,718.43 |
PMC Team |
| 2013 |
$130,600.41 |
PMC Team |
| 2012 |
$165,385.00 |
PMC Team |
| 2011 |
$136,516.26 |
PMC Team |
| 2010 |
$221,060.43 |
PMC Team |
| 2009 |
$237,953.69 |
PMC Team |
| 2008 |
$294,645.00 |
PMC Team |
| 2007 |
$200.00 |
PMC Team |
| 2006 |
$410,540.80 |
PMC Team |
| 2005 |
$373,358.93 |
PMC Team |
| 2004 |
$505,446.30 |
PMC |
| 2003 |
$147,742.48 |
PMC |
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