WEEI/NESN Jimmy Fund Radio-Telethon

Arbella Insurance Vice President Gayle O'Connell brings a BIG donation check for the Jimmy Fund Radio Telethon.

Laurie H. Glimcher, MD, was named President and CEO of Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in 2016. She is also Director of the Dana-Farber/Harvard Cancer Center and the Richard and Susan Smith Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School. Previously, she was the Stephen and Suzanne Weiss Dean and Professor of Medicine of Weill Cornell Medicine and Provost for Medical Affairs of Cornell University. Dr...

In early 2020, it became difficult for Clinton to eat. It was during the pandemic and much harder at the time to see a doctor, so it took a while before he was able to get checked out. In January 2021, Clinton was diagnosed with esophageal cancer that metastasized into his lungs. His treatment included six months on a feeding tube, chemotherapy and radiation treatments. In summer 2021, he received...

Red Sox legend and Hall of Famer Carlton Fisk talks about the long-time support he has given to the Jimmy Fund and how Fenway has changed since his playing days.

Dr. Hartley-Brown's clinical area of focus is treating patients with Multiple Myeloma. This is an incurable blood cancer, that affects African Americans more prevalently than other ethnic populations. She also practices clinical research, mainly in the relapsed refractory myeloma disease setting. Dr. Hartley-Brown actively participates as a principal investigator in clinical trials within the Alli...

Jaimey was diagnosed with prostate cancer in 2008. He was treated and received a clean bill of health and remained cancer-free. In May 2015, a routine blood donation led to a life-changing discovery when the Red Cross director urged him to seek immediate medical attention. Jaimey was diagnosed with chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL), which, contrary to its typical slow progression, advanced rapidl...

Erica Howes is joined by patient Sophia and her daughter Alice to share that Howes will be making a big donation to the Jimmy Fund.

Brock Holt nicknamed, “The Brock Star” is a former Major League Baseball utility player who played for the Boston Red Sox (2013–2019). He served as the Jimmy Fund Captain from 2015-2019 and has been a long-time supporter of Dana-Farber’s fundraising efforts. After serving as Jimmy Fund Captain, Holt and Lakyn have remained steadfast supporters of Dana-Farber and the Jimmy Fund. They ran the Boston...

Matt Waning's cancer journey began in 2021, at the age of 34, when he was diagnosed with testicular cancer. The aggressive nature of his illness led to surgery that removed a tumor the size of a watermelon, along with his left testicle and kidney, as the tumor had reached his aorta. Following surgery, he underwent two months of preventive chemotherapy known as VIP treatment and celebrated being in...

Dr. Cutler received his MD from McGill University, Montreal, Canada. He subsequently received his MPH from the Harvard school of Public Health. He completed postgraduate training in Internal Medicine at Royal Victoria Hospital, Montreal, followed by a fellowship in Hematology/Oncology at DFCI. In 2002, he joined DFCI, where he currently is a member of the Hematologic Malignancies staff. Dr. Cutler...

Eva had unexplained fevers for about a week. She was pale and sleeping a lot. Her parents took her to the pediatrician, who advised them to take Eva immediately to the emergency room. Her bloodwork revealed she had acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL). After two years of treatment including chemotherapy, she was finally in remission, but cancer returned just two weeks later. Eva needed a stem cell t...

“It was nothing to worry about,” Andrew was repeatedly told, when he visited urgent care twice for pain in his pelvis area. But the discomfort wouldn’t go away, so he met with his primary care physician who referred him to a urologist for an ultrasound. The scans led to a testicular cancer diagnosis in early 2023. It was caught early enough, and he was told there was a good prognosis. The cancer h...

Red Sox reliever Liam Hendriks joins to share his personal battle with stage 4 non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, getting involved with the Jimmy Fund, and working back from injury to hopefully help the team as they push for the playoffs.

During the summer before her senior year in Boston College’s nursing program, Zoe started having chronic headaches, which were brushed off as anxiety and migraines. Eventually, her left arm went numb, so doctors thought she could be experiencing a focal seizure: a seizure that affects only one side of the brain. An MRI led to a brain tumor diagnosis. After surgery in 2017, she was declared cancer-...

Tina was 33 when she was diagnosed with breast cancer. She discovered a bump near her clavicle and went to her OGBYN who promptly sent her for a mammogram. Tina is among a growing number of young women being diagnosed with breast cancer. Tina’s treatment started with six rounds of chemotherapy, followed by a double mastectomy earlier this summer. She is currently doing some rounds of low dosage ch...

Dr. Hahn is the William Rosenberg Professor of Medicine in the Department of Medical Oncology at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard Medical School and an Institute Member of the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard. He serves as an Executive Vice President and the Chief Operating Officer at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. Dr. Hahn has made numerous discoveries that have informed our current...

Red Sox relievers Chris Martin and Kenley Jansen join the show to talk about their second year as part of the Jimmy Fund and the impact they've seen while being a part of it. The pitchers also react to a walk-off win on the previous night and how ready the team is to make a push for the playoffs in the final month and a half of the regular season.

Dr. James Fanale worked in healthcare for nearly five decades, but never really knew what it meant to be a patient until he was told he had cancer - Stage 4 lung cancer. James was president and CEO of Care New England, retiring in 2022, shortly after being diagnosed. Jim typically ran the Falmouth Road Race and insists on being able to continue running. Since his cancer diagnosis, Jim has focused...

Denise Beady was 37 years old when she was diagnosed with early-stage breast cancer in 2017. She sought out care at Dana-Farber, in part because she was so young at the time of her diagnosis. In 2022, Denise felt another lump under her arm, and after tests and scans, it was revealed that Denise was having a recurrence of her breast cancer and it returned as stage 4 Denise works as a paramedic and...

Jillian McFall joins Gresh and Fauria to discuss her battle with pancreatic cancer. Dr. Brian Wolpin joins to further discuss Jillian's journey.  Jillian landed in the ICU and cancer unit in Boston; where she met Dr. Brian Wolpin, who explained that she’d need to start chemotherapy as soon as possible or she’d die. She was so sick and doesn’t even remember her first chemotherapy session. Today, th...

Lorayne Wadden joins Gresh and Fauria to discuss her four year old daughter's acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) diagnosis in November 2023. Eliza's treatment has included chemotherapy, and she currently is in treatment. Her family thinks the Jimmy Fund Clinic is so special because the staff, doctors, and nurses help make them forget about the illness at times and comforts the patients through the...

Marlene joins Gresh and Fauria to discuss her battle with Myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS). Merlene is joined by daughter Jen and Dr. Lachelle Weeks. Dr. Weeks is an Instructor in Medicine at Harvard Medical School and a physician-scientist in the adult leukemia program at Dana-Farber Cancer institute.  Dr. Weeks’ clinic focuses on the care of patients with precursors of myeloid malignancies includ...

Doug Grip, who was diagnosed with squamous cell sarcoma in 2018, sits down with Gresh and Fauria alongside Dr. Robert Haddad, the chief physician of the Head and Neck Oncology division. Doug, who is celebrating being cancer-free for six years this month, praises the above-and-beyond support and caretaking of his wife, Karen, as well as their two daughters who wore necklaces with the word “Hopeful”...

Shirley Joseph, a breast cancer patient at Dana-Farber joins Gresh and Fauria alongside her husband, Mike, and  Kristen Donoghue a Registered Nurse at Dana-Farber. Kristen says her best days at work are when she “throws myself into my patients’ lives” and helps them to redirect focus on their family, friends, and ambitions—not their cancer. Shirley and Kirsten discuss the relationship they have de...

Chris Devin joins Gresh and Fauria to discuss his experience battling multiple myeloma and his participation in a clinical trial at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute under the care of Dr. Paul Richardson.  Chris faced a series of relapses and faced another intensive treatment regimen lasting 12 months. In October 2023, Chris underwent CAR T-cell therapy. Despite being hospitalized multiple times due to...