Heather McNamara, who was featured in a commercial for the New York Presbyterian Hospital in 2011 after surviving a baseball-sized tumor at the age of seven, thanks to a groundbreaking and life ...

Many people may remember Heather McNamara as a 7-year-old featured in a commercial for NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital in 2011. In the commercial, she explained how removing and then replacing many ...

No one embodied the spirit of giving like lifelong Long Islander Heather McNamara, who was the epitome of strength, courage and selflessness. Heather was diagnosed with cancer when she was 3 ...

In a too-brief life, Heather McNamara endured one cancer treatment and blood transfusion after another, all the while staying focused on doing whatever she could to help others. She did it by ...

Heather McNamara, who stole countless hearts across the Tri-State area after undergoing groundbreaking cancer surgery as a child, has died at the age of 22. The Long Island resident from Islip ...

Heather McNamara, 22, died June 1 due to organ failure after an extended illness. She was an EMT with Exchange Ambulance of the Islips who bravely battled childhood cancer and survived with a ...