By DONNA NITZBERG, featured in the December 2010 issue of the Parent Paper.

12/09/10 - When you’re part of a close-knit family, you share the best of times and the worst of times. For one large and loving New Jersey family, it has been the ability to carve out good times together, even while living through the worst kind of nightmare, childhood cancer, that has kept them positive, resilient and able to look beyond their own suffering.

Incredibly, two young cousins in the extended Stefanacci family were each diagnosed with a genetically unrelated but extremely grave cancer only four years apart. First, it was 13-year-old Richard Stefanacci of Merchantville, who was struck with a brutal and rare bone cancer, called Ewing’s sar- coma, in 2006. And now, it’s his first cousin, 9-year-old Blake Buffa from Ho-Ho-Kus, who is fighting alveolar rhabdomyosarcoma, an aggressive soft tissue cancer.

What are the chances of that?... Read the full article from The Parent Paper (PDF)

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