Classmates rally around occupational therapy student diagnosed with cancer
With one touch last summer, what was just another day in the life of a Trojan graduate student suddenly became something much more.
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Festival of Life celebrates triumphs of cancer survivors and their families
It’s such a dreaded thing that people often refer to it only by its initial — the C word.
But at the Festival of Life on June 1, the letter stood for a lot more than cancer. There was also courage, care and mostly, celebration.
Festival participant Laurie Miller signs the Festival of Life scroll.
Photo/Lisa Brook
Hundreds of cancer survivors and their families gathered in the Harry & Celesta Pappas Quad on the Health Sciences Campus to commemorate their success in beating back the disease and to show others that they can do it too. … Read More »
American Thoracic Society honors Jonathan Samet
The American Thoracic Society awarded its highest recognition, the Edward Livingston Trudeau Medal, to Jonathan M. Samet, professor and Flora L. Thornton Chair in the Department of Preventive Medicine at the Keck School of Medicine of USC, at its annual meeting May 19. … Read More »
USC Norris patient has an eye for soothing images
For patients and visitors to USC Norris Cancer Hospital, the effect of new photographs in the lobby can be subtle, but for the man who took the photographs, they can bring some calm to people during a very stressful time in their life.
USC Norris cancer patient Jim Martellotti displays one of his photos in the lobby of the cancer hospital.
It is a situation Jim Martellotti knows well. Not only did he take three of the framed photos strategically located in hospital’s lobby and seating areas, but he’s also a longtime cancer patient.
When the lifelong shutterbug heard the hospital was looking to decorate the lobby and some upper floors after a renovation, the 65-year-old Martellotti knew he wanted to be part of it. … Read More »