For more than four decades, the Cancer Support Team (CST), headquartered in Rye, New Yok, has been enhancing the quality of life for thousands of patients and families affected by cancer with essential health and supportive services at no cost and without regard to insurance coverage at any stage of the disease. It is the only Westchester-based home care program solely focused on cancer.
Founded in 1978 under the guidance and vision of Arnold Wald, M.D., and Gayle Lee, RN, CST is the only Westchester County-based nonprofit home care program licensed by the New York State Department of Health (NYSDOH).
Recently at Rye”™s Shenorock Shore Club, CST hosted “A Celebration of Love and Hope” gala at which two community leaders Carla Volpe Porter and John M. Tolomer were honored with CST awards.
The Barbara Melamed Memorial Award, presented every two years to organizations and individuals who have made a difference in the lives of cancer patients and their families, went to Porter, a retired general counsel of Renaissance Technologies LLC, an investment advisory firm, who lost her mother to colon cancer when she was four years old, and Tolomer, market president, Valley Bank in New Jersey. The award is named after the late Barbara Melamed who was a Cancer Support Team social worker and whose own experience with cancer gave her a special empathy for her patients.
