By Kiwanian Dave WilsonMany children from the Rogue Valley have received treatment at Doernbecher Children’s Hospital in Portland. This hospital is a leader in the National Cancer Institute 20 member consortium Phase 1 treatment centers in the United States, and is the only hospital west of the Mississippi to achieve this distinction. During the County…
Benefit dinner/auction for Ethan is Mar. 18
February 22, 2010 by Leave a Comment
{gallery}/02_23_10/quilt{/gallery}Six months ago seven-year-old Ethan Jostad complained of his chest hurting when he was laying in bed. Just over two weeks later doctors at Doernbecher Children’s Hospital in Portland advised that Ethan had Alveolar Rhabdomyosarcoma. This form of cancer strikes only about 450 children annually. The family learned that Ethan was already at Stage IV,…
