On today's podcast Dr. Sharon Hammond will talk about her daughter Summer who passed from Rhabdomayoscarcoma while beginning her junior year at Dartmouth College. She will also discuss her non-profit that she established 2 years after Summer's passing.

While looking at colleges with her family at the beginning of her senior year in high school, Dr. Sharon Hammond's daughter Summer noticed a small cyst between her left thumb and finger. Two and a half months later she told her mother that she needed to see a hand specialist as the cyst continued to grow.. The end result  became a diagnosis of Rhabdomayosarcoma. Summer was able to attend her first two years of study at Dartmouth College and was even able to go to Buenos Aries to study for 3 months from January to April of 2015. Unfortunately shortly after returning to Dartmouth, Summer found out that her cancer had spread and she passed away on July 20th of that year.

Dr. Hammond will talk about Summer and about the Summer's Way Foundation, the non -profit that she  started which is totally involved in trying to fund research and find a cure for this very difficult form of Pediatric Cancer.