We have learned A LOT in the past year. We have learned about FA and the struggles our boys will continue to have. We have learned that the FAmily is amazing and that we are stronger than we imagined.
I know that Violet’s journey will continue, and she will continue to be a rockstar in everything she does. Since diagnosis, the biggest lesson I have learned is to just keep going and have faith.
Learn about FA clinician and cancer researcher Eunike Velleuer, who is working on preventing and detecting oral cancer in people with FA.
I am realizing now that parenting Eli is parenting a young man with two diagnoses that can be life-threatening. There is the FA that looms on the horizon and threatens cancer, and there is depression.
Hi, my name is Michelle. Like a lot of teenagers, I had big dreams and goals for what I was going to do with my life. I never imagined I would have cancer in my thirties.
Learn more about Dr. Frias, who works on cytogenetics and leads an FA team in Mexico