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Brooke Blake, 12, Remembered For Her Never-Ending Smile, Brave Battle With Cancer
A 12-year-old Northern Fairfield County girl known for her never-ending smile and brave battle against a rare form of cancer has succumbed to the disease.
Brooke Blake, whose smile lifted many in Ridgefield as she fought the rare form of brain cancer, DIPG, for more than five years, died on Thursday, June 4.
Brooke, who turned 12 in May, was diagnosed with the untreatable form of pediatric brain cancer in 2015 when she was 7-years-old.
For the next five years, she endured numerous brain procedures, rounds and rounds of chemotherapy, and several clinical trials, the whole time wi…
Covid-19: Hudson Valley ER Doc Who Survived Cancer Twice Dies In Husband's Arms
An emergency room doctor who worked in New York, including the Hudson Valley, and New Jersey and who twice survived cancer died a week after developing symptoms of novel coronavirus (COVID-19).
Dr. Frank Gabrin, 60, woke up with chest pain and other symptoms on Tuesday, March 24, his husband, Arnold Vargas, said.
On Tuesday, March 31, Gabrin woke up saying he couldn't breathe, and died later that day.
Gabrin, who stayed home from work last Thursday, March 26, was not tested for coronavirus but he and his husband both were certain he contracted the virus since he'd been treating patients …
