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Summer 2010
Promise is published three times a year by The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center and is dedicated to our friends who have joined us in Making Cancer History®.
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Among Friends
Over lunch one day in 2002, a well-intentioned Houston philanthropist suggested Lanie Rose and her best friend set a fundraising goal of $10,000 for an event honoring the memory of Lanie's daughter, Marnie Rose, M.D., whose pediatric medical residency at Children's Memorial Hermann Hospital had been cut short that year by a rare form of brain cancer.
Mike Shad, of Jacksonville, Fla., is president of Mike Shad, P.L., a CPA firm that provides business valuations, litigation support,...
Kim Johnson of San Antonio joined MD Anderson's Advance Team in 2009. She co-founded the Teal Lunch for Life in 2008 to raise money...
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