Designer Salvatore Cesarani has started a campaign to educate the public about carcinoid cancer, the disease that took his wife of 50 years last February.
Carcinoid cancer involves slow-growing (and hence hard to detect) neuroendocrine tumors that typically affect the digestive system but are also found in other parts of the body.
“It’s pretty amazing to think that 7.6 million people die of cancer each year,” he said. “Just out of nowhere, it came into our lives and stole my wife Nancy away. You don’t really know what those 7.6 million people and their loved ones are going through until it affects you personally. For me, a cure for cancer—and carcinoid, in particular—cannot come soon enough.”
To raise money and awareness for carcinoid cancer, Cesarani has created a leather and chrome-plated bracelet, which can be purchased on his website for $60.
In the video below, produced by filmmaker Robert Ipcar, Cesarani discusses the project.
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