Patrick the camel, with zookeepers Travis Pyland, foreground, and Tyler Mesick from the “Zoo to You” video, part of the 2021 National Cancer Survivors Day Celebration hosted by Upstate.
A virtual Cancer Survivors Day
For 24 years, upstate has hosted a National Cancer Survivors Day Celebration, and, in recent years, it has been held at the Rosamond Gifford Zoo at Burnet Park in Syracuse. This year, due to COVID-19, the “Zoo to You” event was virtual and premiered on June 6.
This article appears in the summer 2021 issue of Cancer Care magazine.
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