{"id":256242,"date":"2026-05-03T05:22:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-03T05:22:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/256242\/"},"modified":"2026-05-03T05:22:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-03T05:22:08","slug":"cancer-survivorship-celebration-event-held-in-dolphin-mall-to-honor-cancer-survivors-wsvn-7news-miami-news-weather-sports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/256242\/","title":{"rendered":"Cancer Survivorship Celebration event held in Dolphin Mall to honor cancer survivors &#8211; WSVN 7News | Miami News, Weather, Sports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SWEETWATER, FLA. (WSVN) &#8211; A celebration of hope and healing welcomed hundreds of cancer survivors at Dolphin Mall for the Cancer Survivorship Celebration<\/p>\n<p>The Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center hosted the event on Saturday. <\/p>\n<p>The event welcomed more than 600 guests and honored over 150 survivors, many of whom shared their personal inspirational stories. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn a way, it\u2019s sad to see so many people that are survivors, but it\u2019s wonderful that they are surviving, and I know that there\u2019s a big effort being made to do more research to make it better and cure a lot of these illnesses,\u201d said cancer survivor Leon Efronson <\/p>\n<p>The celebration also aimed to raise awareness of the mental and financial challenges that cancer survivors experience.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a great day because we\u2019re out of the clinic, we\u2019re celebrating the milestones that our survivors and their families have had,\u201d said Sylvester Survivorship and Support Care Institute Director Frank J. Penedo.  <\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 Sunbeam Television Corp. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.<\/p>\n<p>\tJoin our Newsletter for the latest news right to your inbox<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SWEETWATER, FLA. (WSVN) &#8211; A celebration of hope and healing welcomed hundreds of cancer survivors at Dolphin Mall&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":256243,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[225,227,226],"class_list":["post-256242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-hialeah","tag-hialeah","tag-hialeah-headlines","tag-hialeah-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=256242"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256242\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/256243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=256242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=256242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=256242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}