Beth Fand Incollingo: freelance content marketing writer

Curetoday • 23rd May 2020

Finding Meaning While Waiting in the Infusion Chair

When Linda Dziobek was lost in chemotherapy-induced brain fog and facing neuropathy that made every movement of her hands a struggle, her love of beading helped heal her. Now the jewelry she makes while sitting in the infusion chair does the same for those around her.

After every treatment at Women & Infants Hospital in Providence, Rhode Island, the 15-year survivor of ovarian cancer adds sparkling creations to an “earring tree” placed there by volunteers. Patients are free to choose from and k

Curetoday • 5th June 2019

Striking a Match: Pairing Patients with Survivor Mentors

Patients can learn a lot on their own about how to navigate the cancer experience, but sometimes the encouragement of someone who’s been there can make the worst moments more manageable.

That’s the concept behind Imerman Angels, a Chicago-based nonprofit organization that carefully matches patients with people who’ve survived similar cancers and can offer specific help and guidance. The group also matches caregivers with those who have filled that role in the past. The service is free.

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Curetoday • 8th February 2017

"Jeopardy!" Contestant With Metastatic Cancer Won $100,000 and Donated it to Immunotherapy Research

At the end of her winning streak on “Jeopardy!,” after she had won six games and just over $100,000, Cindy Stowell was satisfied. But when the episodes featuring Stowell aired on TV several months later, those who knew her were left longing for more.

“A couple of people said they secretly hoped she’d never stop winning, because it would let them have one more day with her,” her boyfriend, Jason Hess, recalls.

Instead, her friends and relatives in Austin, Texas watched the first three episodes

1st March 2011

Independence and Tenacity Anchor Immunology Pioneer

James P. Allison has never hesitated to buck the system.

6th July 2009

A Lesson in Achievement Burlington Co. students elect special prom queen

When Kristen Shenowski started kindergarten nearly 14 years ago, she had no trouble making friends.

10th May 2005

Couple comes to the rescue of the 'underdogs' of abandoned pets.

Renee and Luna Foxx aren't bothered by the rats flitting around their feet, and they don't jump when the rodents crawl onto their furniture _ or into their laps.

1st December 2004

Years of service, hold the smile, distinguish retiring waitress

Ruth Worthey has nothing bad to say about Mary Wirth, so she's come up with a lighthearted term for the glower that darkens her co-worker's face whenever she greets customers at the Townehouse Restaurant.

28th November 2004

In tune with the Pinelands

They say that driving in the Pine Barrens is like riding through a sugar bowl, because the pure white sand that blankets the woods can bury a car to its axles in no time flat.

18th April 2004

Two homes, one heart

The black people in Dillon, S.C., didn't dwell much on segregation when Sandra Yvette Vant was a child. It weighed on them, sometimes so heavily it hurt, but they didn't believe there was a lot they could do about it, except maybe to pray.

24th February 2004

It's ‘Showtime'

The theater is quiet, the stage empty, when a 12-year-old boy ambles out of the wings and up to a microphone.

21st December 2003

Legacy of a schizophrenic's rage

For a single moment on that day just before Christmas, Jean Zelinsky reconsidered her murder-suicide plan.

12th October 2003

Rare disease, rare heroism Parents, their children fight for a chance at life

It was January, and the household was in morning mode.
John and Aileen Crowley were up and about, getting their three children ready for school. And then, with a gasp, there was chaos.