A Celebration of Michelle's Life
In Lieu of Flowers
Below are several worthy causes for donations in Michelle's honor.
If you would like to let the family know of your donation, please email the information to mcos26@gmail.com. All information will be kept private or shared at your discretion.
All gifts to these entities are tax deductible.
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Memorial Sloan Kettering Breast Cancer Giving
Since Michelle's metastatic breast cancer diagnosis in 2018, she was under the excellent care of Dr. Ayca Gucalp and the team at MSK. The team's attention, expertise, compassion and patience made a major impact on Michelle and her entire family.
Michelle directly benefited from the research and development that MSK does everyday. Gifts to MSK breast cancer research in Michelle's honor can be made here. Gifts will support the mission of research, cancer care for patients and families, and education programs for future cancer specialists.
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Dartmouth Health & Geisel School of Medicine
- The Margy Fund
Michelle was an Advisory Board member of the Margy Fund, inspired by a dear friend, Margy Pisani, who passed from triple negative breast cancer (TNBC). The Fund directly supports the research of Dr. Linda Vahdat (Margy’s oncologist) to develop a treatment to interrupt the metastasis of TNBC.
The success of the Margy Fund has helped move the original research into a FDA approved Phase 2 clinical trial and the Fund is now the TNBC Research Fund at the Dartmouth Health & Geisel School of Medicine. MSK is one of the participating hospitals in the clinical trial.
All proceeds go directly to support TNBC RF. More information and gifting can be found here. Note, to ensure the funds go directly to the TNBC Research Fund, click the "Give Now" button directly under the 1st paragraph in the link.
Those wishing to donate by mail can download this form.