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March 2019
He went from a guest to a volunteer and Fran Thomas has been one of the backbones of our amazing corps at Kevin Guest House. Now he’s a recognized as one of the most committed volunteers in Western New York.  On March 28, 2019, Fran won the Commitment to Service Award at the Volunteer WNY:...
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For a while, Amy Sumbrum did her best to connect patients with each other informally, creating a sort of ad hoc support group. She understood they were dealing with side effects that other cancer patients didn’t endure. As a speech-language pathologist in the Department of Head and Neck Surgery at Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center,...
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Jonathan Gutchess is a cancer survivor. But the triumph of beating cancer isn’t the end of his story. In many ways, it’s just beginning. Diagnosed in July of 2016 at age 49 with primary-oropharynx right tonsillar squamous cell carcinoma staged II, Jonathan was treated near his home in Dryden, N.Y., at the Cayuga Medical Center....
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