Patrick Chance is the five year-old son of Erin and Stephen Chance. Patrick lives in Atlanta with his sisters, Madison (7) and Anna (2), and his dogs, Banks and Bear. He loves the ocean, spiders, baseball, golf, firefighters, Spider-Man, and GI Joe.
In June of 2006, Patrick was diagnosed with neuroblastoma, a rare and aggressive childhood cancer. It took surgery, ten cycles of toxic chemotherapy, twelve rounds of radiation, and one cycle of monoclonal antibody therapy to rid Patrick of this terrible disease The last cycle of chemotherapy was so strong that he required autologous stem cell rescue to survive. He continues to receive painful antibody therapy in hopes of keeping him in remission. He is still at high risk for relapse and at risk for secondary cancers like leukemia as well as infertility, scoliosis, and other significant side effects. Simply put, the current treatments for neuroblastoma are not good enough. With your help, we plan to change that.
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