Team Lizard | Pan Mass Challenge
Raising money for life-saving cancer research and treatment
Original post date: July 12, 2017
Reposted from the Dana Farber Blog
Cancer is a serious illness – at any stage – and patients often experience painful symptoms and side effects that can make treatment more difficult to tolerate, both physically and emotionally. Seeking assistance from palliative care professionals can help patients maintain quality of life throughout treatment. But what do palliative care clinicians do, and how do they fit in with the rest of the care team?
Team Lizard is sad to announce that Dave Mittelman, one of the Team Lizard founders, recently died of brain cancer. Dave rode the PMC for 28 years and has forever held great pride in Team Lizard, inspiring his wife and all three of his children to become PMC riders as well. During his 8 months of treatment, he enrolled in a clinical trial at Mass General Hospital, contributing his data to the mix in the hopes that one day there will be a cure, let alone a preventative approach for this type of cancer. Alongside wife and life partner, Michele, Dave turned Team Lizard into one of the highest grossing teams in PMC history. Team Lizard will not be the same without him. Please read his obituary here.
