The community came out in force to support Rhode Island and Hasbro Children’s hospitals during the annual Day of Giving on Thursday, April 11, raising an incredible $456,392!
In partnership with WJAR NBC-10 and Cumulus Media Providence, the daylong event took over the airwaves and televisions across the Ocean State to highlight the world-renowned physicians from the Brown University Health Cancer Institute and the leading-edge cancer care found right here, close to home.
Diagnosed with advanced ovarian cancer in her late 40s, Lora Fox Gamble had few options for treatment until Dr. Don Dizon of the Brown University Health Cancer Institute identified her as a candidate for a radical application of chemotherapy offered locally only at Rhode Island Hospital.
