“I Think I Can” Gala (Video)

Music video from the 2015 “I Think I Can” gala event. Features patients, doctors, nurses, medical staff, researchers from the UA Steele Children’s Research Center and Banner Children’s at Diamond Children’s Medical Center.

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Bald Beauties Project® helps boost confidence for ill kids

(via Tucson.com) Wearing a pink and white dress and matching headband on her newly bald head, 9-year-old Patricia Navarro holds her head high and smiles. As photographer Natalie Lindberg’s camera clicks, Patricia goes through a series of poses, finishing in a yellow and purple garden surrounded by butterflies. The Tucson...

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Biz Tucson: Kelsey’s Spirit Endures

(via BizTucson.com) She traveled the world, exploring New York City, San Francisco, Australia, Israel and Poland – where she took part in the March of the Living, journeying from Auschwitz to Birkenau in a silent tribute to Holocaust victims. She organized fundraisers as a young girl, and spent much of...

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Kelsey’s legacy lives on in Bald Beauties Project®

(Via Tucson.com) After she was diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia, one of the first of Kelsey Taylor Luria’s many sorrows was losing her long, thick hair. First it was blond strands on her pillow, then clumps. The 17-year-old Catalina Foothills High School senior was encouraged to take control by shaving...

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