RSJ News
Journalism grad copes with cancer
09-09-2009
Alicia's surrogate mom, Sally Valentine, kisses Alicia before an MRI in 2006. Photo by Penni Gladstone, used with permission of San Francisco Chronicle.
When she needed help getting to her treatments for soft-tissue cancer, 2004 journalism graduate Alicia Parlette, 27, turned to her friends, including many at the University of Nevada, Reno, and the Reynolds School of Journalism.
The result? Parlette called the outpouring of gifts a "miracle" in an subsequent e-mail.
A story by Emily Stott about the support that Parlette received for her ongoing battle with alveolar soft part sarcoma, a rare form of cancer, runs at the Nevada Sagebrush, UNR's student-run publication.
