“We lead the city of New York in cancer [rates],” he said. “It’s alarming when you take a look at what’s happened in terms of the high rates of all these diseases on Staten Island.”
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — At a Staten Island University Hospital fundraiser in 2013, Dr. Anthony Ferreri shared a secret he had struggled to reveal: He had breast cancer.
The diagnosis turned the then-SIUH CEO into an advocate for awareness of a disease ... [6390 chars]