Mario Lemieux Grants a Wish

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 Mario Lemieux founded the Mario Lemieux Foundation in 1993 shortly after he was diagnosed with Hodgkin’s
disease and has donated millions of dollars to various area institutions since that time. At the time he was probably having his greatest NHL season and was on pace to break and establish a new NHL scoring record. However he became ill and was diagnosed with Hodgkin’s disease.

Mario is now 12 years cancer free since his successful battle with the disease and his experience has led him to focus on different ways to help assist those whom are not as fortunate as he was. Mario devotes much of his time to the Foundation raising funds to help reach the ultimate goal: a cure for cancer. The Foundation has been successful with a long list of achievements including a few listed here below. To see more achievements or to support the foundation then you should check out the official Mario Lemieux Foundation web site.

This video below (courtesy of Pens TV) shows how cancer survivor “Dean” meets his idol, and fellow cancer survivor Mario Lemieux, courtesy of the Make-A-Wish Foundation.
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