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COVID-19 and Cancer: What You Need to Know
Dealing with a cancer diagnosis and treatment is a difficult challenge, and the COVID-19 pandemic makes the situation even harder. We’ve provided some information to help you navigate this trying time.
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Driven to GIVE – a Foundation Spotlight
Loving wife Joyce Murphy lost her husband, Earl “Butch” Murphy, Jr., to cancer in March. Butch fought a five-year battle with multiple myeloma, a form of cancer that affects plasma cells found in bone marrow, and received his care at Fairfield Medical Center’s Cancer Care and Infusion Center.
To learn more about our FMC Foundation and how you can make a difference, call 740-687-8107 or visit fmchealth.org/foundation.
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Terri’s Radiation Experience
It was a blessing for me to be able to receive my radiation treatments here at FMC, and be able to continue working without taking much time off. A shorter treatment time each visit, which is offered by the Linear Accelerator, would have made that even easier.
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Christa’s Cancer Story
When I heard about the possible purchase of the Linear Accelerator, I thought back to my own experience and how different it might have been. Only 15 radiation treatments, dramatically less fatigue and nausea and possibly no burning.
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Tina Talks of the Benefits of the Linear Accelerator
I am so very excited to hear that our Fairfield Medical Center Foundation is helping our Radiation Oncology Department to purchase a much needed Linear Accelerator. I am a Breast Cancer Survivor and recently completed 26 Radiation Treatments at Fairfield Medical Center.
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Tracy (Lape) Oppenheimer – Cancer Support Care
Seven years ago, Tracy started a yoga program at FMC for cancer patients, survivors and their support persons.
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Tough as Iron – Tracy’s Colon Cancer Journey
As someone who has experienced a lot of cancer in her family, Tracy Simons has always been ultra-vigilant about her health.
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Grace Under Pressure – Grace’s Journey with Hodgkin’s Lymphoma
The day that Mary Grace Gundelfinger rang the bell to symbolically end her cancer treatments, she was joined by a lot of people who – like her – had been anxiously waiting for this moment.
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Cheering On the Fight Against Breast Cancer.
Students at Fairfield Union have been wearing a lot more pink than red and black this year, and no one is more surprised than the person who inspired it all – middle school librarian Traci Mahler. When Traci was diagnosed with breast cancer right before the start of the school year, she decided to be upfront with her students about the battle she was about to face.
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Unbeatable Teamwork – Patti’s Breast Cancer Journey
Patti Hayes beat cancer twice with the help of a team of doctors and nurses who provided a comprehensive approach to her care.
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Strength in Numbers – Renee’s Breast Cancer Journey
Renee Reindle’s family and the staff at Fairfield Medical Center have kept her strong in the biggest fight of her life.
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LHS Student Donates Money to Cancer Care Fund
Lancaster High School student Emi Reindle recently presented the FMC Foundation with a check for $600 for the Cancer Care Fund. Emi hosted a fundraiser in cooperation with TWIG One during the Cancer Care Run in October to honor her mother, Renee Reindle, who was diagnosed with breast cancer last year.
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Southeastern Ohio USBC donated $7,816 to the Cancer Care Fund
The Southeastern Ohio United States Bowling Congress (USBC) hosted Strike Out Breast Cancer in October 2018 at Tiki Lanes in Lancaster. Through T-shirt sales and raffle prizes, 135 bowlers raised roughly $8,816 and donated $7,816 to the Fairfield Medical Center Foundation Cancer Care Fund.