It’s a special boost from a bell for people battling cancer. The Leo Jenkins Cancer Center dedicated the Bell of Hope on campus at the Brody School of Medicine today. The Friends of the Leo Jenkins Cancer Center donated it; they want to use it as a symbol. Each patient can ring the bell when they complete radiation therapy or move on to another stage of fighting cancer.
"You don't come with negative thought; you come in with positive thoughts. You come in with negative, you go out with negative so positive is your best guide. And the hope, that's the bell," said Joseph Lee Purington, a cancer patient.
"There’s an acknowledgement by the staff and the people in the center that they have completed perhaps, very difficult journey and so the people that are waiting here, I think, will look upon that someday and say 'that will be me,’ said Mary Raab, an ECU Physician.
The goal of the Friends of the Leo Jenkins Cancer Center is to reach 100 members. For more information, you can call (252) 744-2238.
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