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2019 MVHS Stomp Out Cancer Telethon raises $250,000

From left to right are: Jennifer Humphrey, MVHS Cancer Center team; Tracy Hildebran, director of radiation oncology at MVHS; Darlene Stromstad, president/CEO at MVHS; Bob Scholefield, chief operating officer at MVHS; Dr. Gilbert Lawrence, radiation oncologist at MVHS; Nancy Butcher, executive director of the MVHS Cancer Center; Dr. Karna Sura, radiation oncologist at MVHS; Cheryl Bowen, 2019 SOC patient champion; Symeon Tsoupelis, MVHS board member and SOC chair; Michele Adams, director of annual giving and leadership gifts at MVHS; Tom Neumann, president/CEO of First Source Federal Credit Union; Pat Lupia, president of MVHS Volunteers; John Forbes, VP of Philanthropy at MVHS; and Delta Rubsamen, director of volunteer services at MVHS. (PHOTO CREDIT: MVHS)

UTICA — The Mohawk Valley Health System (MVHS) Foundation and the MVHS Cancer Center announced that their 21st annual Stomp Out Cancer Telethon held this spring raised $250,000. This year, gifts had double the impact as all donations, up to $125,000, were matched by an anonymous donor. The telethon was broadcast live Wednesday, March 27 […]

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UTICA — The Mohawk Valley Health System (MVHS) Foundation and the MVHS Cancer Center announced that their 21st annual Stomp Out Cancer Telethon held this spring raised $250,000.

This year, gifts had double the impact as all donations, up to $125,000, were matched by an anonymous donor. The telethon was broadcast live Wednesday, March 27 from the MVHS Cancer Center on WKTV NewsChannel 2 from noon to 7 p.m. and on CBS Utica from 7 p.m. to 8 p.m.

More than 700 individuals and businesses contributed money to the fundraising effort. Money raised through this year’s telethon will support the purchase of a new, state-of-the-art linear accelerator that is “greatly needed” for the F. E. Romano Family Radiation Oncology Department at the MVHS Cancer Center,” MVHS said. The new linear accelerator will allow the MVHS Cancer Center team to target tumors more accurately in a shorter treatment time while also minimizing the dose of radiation to surrounding healthy tissue and organs, it noted.

“The support of this community is amazing,” said Nancy Butcher, director of the MVHS Cancer Center, said in a release. “What is being done at the MVHS Cancer Center is touching the lives of thousands and will continue to do so for generations to come.”

Journal Staff