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Alicia Luongo of Saugus receives the David Solimine Sr. Honorary Scholarship from Boston North Cancer Association. She is joined by board members Kevin McCarthy of Nahant (left), David Solimine Sr. of Lynn and President Susan McCarthy of Nahant.
By MATT DEMIRS
Boston North Cancer Association (BNCA) honored North Shore doctors and students last month at the 7th annual Hope Begins Here Awards.
The Peabody-based nonprofit whose mission is to support the prevention, research, education and care of cancer, recognized Dr. Noel P. DeFelippo for more than 30 years of excellence and dedication in the treatment of patients with bladder, kidney, prostate and testicular cancer.
The Swampscott resident practices at Urology Consultants of the North Shore with offices in Salem and Danvers.
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The BNCA Scholarship Program recognizes childhood cancer survivors, young people of parents with cancer, and medical school students who show a promising career in cancer treatment.
Arthur Kautz of Swampscott High School was awarded the $3,500 Hope Begins Here Scholarship, which is given to a senior whose parent either died from cancer, survived cancer during the applicant’s childhood years, or is undergoing treatment for cancer.
Alicia Luongo of Saugus High School and Cassidy Woods of Wakefield, a student at Bishop Fenwick High School, received the $3,500 David J. Solimine Sr. Honorary Scholarship.
Stewart Pine, a 2010 Newburyport High School graduate attending Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine was awarded the $7,500 F. John Bargoot, MD Memorial Scholarship.
Matt Demirs can be reached at [email protected]