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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...fighter," Ryan comments. And fight she did--with loan officers, little league umpires, and with a prognosis that she refused to believe. "When, inevitably, the cancer would come back, months, or even weeks later, my mom refused to give up. She was determined to beat the disease, and she showed more strength and courage during her battles than anyone I have ever...

Author: By Daniel B. Baer, | Title: Close to Home: The Story of Four Families | 3/4/1999 | See Source »

...First Ryan's older brother Andy left for Yale, then his brother Eric left for the University of Michigan. Although he missed having his older brothers around, Ryan treasured the years he spent alone at home with his Mom. When she wasn't working or getting cancer treatment, she would pick him up after school and take him to the movies. "She wasn't the same as other mothers," Ryan says. "I mean, we went to see Lambada together...

Author: By Daniel B. Baer, | Title: Close to Home: The Story of Four Families | 3/4/1999 | See Source »

...Ryan G. Schaffer '00 traveled with his mother, Jan, from their home in Cleveland to Philadelphia to see a specialist who might be able to treat his mom's rare form of cancer. Jan Schaffer had first been diagnosed in 1982, and after a brief period of radiation treatment, a doctor declared her cured. She returned to normal life for a while--if you can call being the single mother of three energetic sons normal. But eight years later the cancer returned. When Ryan and his mother spoke with the Philadelphia doctor, he told her she had six months...

Author: By Vasugi V. Ganeshananthan, | Title: CLOSE TO ME | 3/4/1999 | See Source »

Through Ryan's high school years his mom struggled, balancing work, her son's sports schedule and trips around the country for treatment. In the summer of 1996, before his freshman year at Harvard the cancer returned and doctors told her that treatment methods had been exhausted. Ryan thought of postponing Harvard for a year, but his mom wouldn't hear of it and so he left reluctantly to start school. But one mooning in late October, his brother called and asked him to come home. On November 4, 1996, Ryan held his mother's hand as she passed away...

Author: By Vasugi V. Ganeshananthan, | Title: CLOSE TO ME | 3/4/1999 | See Source »

...fighter," Ryan comments. And fight she did-with loan officers, little league umpires, and with a prognosis that she refused to believe. "When, inevitably, the cancer would come back, months, or even weeks later, my mom refused to give up. She was determined to beat the disease, and she showed more strength and courage during her battles than anyone I have ever...

Author: By Vasugi V. Ganeshananthan, | Title: CLOSE TO ME | 3/4/1999 | See Source »

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