Danny was a happy 6 year-old kid who enjoyed playing with his younger brother and with his friends. He loved outside activities such as riding his bike and playing soccer, and going to his gymnastics class. We thought he was the healthiest boy ever. He was very athletic, and loved eating healthy and sophisticated food.

He was diagnosed with Neuroblastoma Stage IV, a pediatric cancer. Danny lived six beautiful years of childhood, and almost five years fighting for his life, passing away just six days before his 11th birthday. But cancer did not define who he was. He always lived his life to the fullest.

For five years, Danny endured non-stop treatments and very long stays at hospitals, the attack of AML leukemia caused by the previous treatments, and survived a second bone marrow transplant aided by his brother’s stem cells.

Danny was part of many clinical trials and had to travel all over the country to big childhood research hospitals where these experimental treatments were offered. Most of the time, the treatments were extremely difficult, painful, and toxic, with many long-term side-effects. No child should have to suffer that much, but childhood cancer does not leave many choices.  It is a very nasty disease

Cancer treatments are very toxic, and that is why we need more research, to find better treatments for our kids, and to eventually find a cure. But there is not enough funding for childhood cancer research, which is unbelievable, because these are our kids, our future. That is why we have to stand up for them, and be their voices and their advocates!

Danny's Fund continues Danny's fight by supporting cutting edge research for treatment for other children with cancer. We don't ever want other parents to experience for themselves the pain of such a loss. We want all children with cancer to have more options and to be able to have their cancer cured.