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Scottsdale-based Arizona Cancer Foundation for Children turns 10

Foundation has helped over 10,000 cancer warriors and families cope

Chrisie Abramo’s five-year-old daughter Ava lost her fight with cancer in 2012. That lead Abramo to create the Scottsdale-based Arizona Cancer Foundation for Children. (Courtesy Arizona Cancer Foundation for Children)

(Courtesy Arizona Cancer Foundation for Children)

Chrisie Abramo’s daughter Ava lost her fight with cancer in 2012. She was five years old.

Of course it was devastating to lose her daughter, but the entire experience left Abramo feeling alienated.

“She fought for three-and-a-half years and for those three-and-a-half years nobody ever asked me how I was doing or how my son was doing,” Abramo said.

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