Illes, Russ

Russ Illes is a sixty-five year old father of two grown daughters with three granddaughters. His youngest daughter was diagnosed with ALL at age three. Over the last thirty years the cancer has returned a total of six times. Each time taking a different form. Russ has undergone therapy of one sort or another for fifteen years and been involved with the Living with Cancer Support Group at South Shore Hospital in Weymouth, MA. He was a volunteer in cancer hospice care for eight years. He is co-founder, leader and participant of a men's support group that has been together for twenty-four years.