Cooper Trooper Foundation Fund in Childhood Cancer Research

October 25, 2018

Annual Pumpkin Patch helps cancer research funds grow

Each October, as Missy Cook helps unload trailers full of bright, plump pumpkins with hundreds of volunteers, she’s reminded why the Cooper Trooper Foundation Pumpkin Patch exists — because her son, Cooper, 10, is alive after surviving a rare cancer that was found when he was just 8 weeks old.

By Christina Echegaray

September 11, 2012

Pumpkin patch will benefit children’s cancer research

By VUMC News and Communications