Leonette Belfield-Carson, whose daughter Jalissa Nadine Carson died of cancer, is now an advocate for other moms with children battling cancer.
NEW YORK -- A Brooklyn woman who lost her daughter to cancer is on a mission to support other mom's weathering the same storm. This month marks seven years since Jalissa Nadine Carson died. Every few days, her mother visits a bench dedicated to her memory in Marine Park, Brooklyn . 'This is a special bench because this is exactly where she sat,' said Leonette Belfield-Carson, whose daughter was 24 when she died.
Jalissa made many friends during her years of treatment at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, 'Even when she was ill, she always thought about other people,' said Belfield-Carson.One of those people, Dr. Tanya Trippett, a pediatric oncologist, founded an organization called Wish4Life, a nonprofit that recently broke ground on a new children's hospital in Ghana that is set to open in 2026.
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