Syracuse, N.Y. — Each person who walked onto the stage at Kitty Hoynes Irish Pub in downtown Syracuse on Sunday had their own reason they let a stranger shave their head to raise money to combat ...

Over the past 25 years, there have been 16,421 St. Baldrick Head-Shaving events, with more than 627,333 heads being shaved in an effort to raise money and awareness. (Photo provided) ...

They agreed to shave their heads to raise money for children with cancer. The first head-shaving fundraiser was held around St. Patrick’s Day in 2000, giving rise to the St. Baldrick’s Foundation.

It's a classic trope of the "cancer genre." Think Samantha Jones's boyfriend, Smith, shaving his head as she goes through breast cancer treatment in the last season of Sex and the City.

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Some patients don't want their loved ones to shave their heads because they would see it as a sign of what they have also lost. Personally, when I was in treatment, I lived for the moments that ...

When a man with a shaved walked into the bar where Sullivan, 41, worked last year and told her about the St. Baldrick’s Foundation, which hosts head-shaving events for pediatric cancer research ...

Third shaved-head incident was summer of 2009 — I was living in Austin, Texas, and that summer was so mercilessly hot that it seemed mandatory. I kept my head Bic'd from June to October that time.

FORT RILEY, Kan. -- Head-shaving can be a way to show support in finding cures for childhood cancer.Volunteers of the Saint Baldrick's Foundation hosted a head-shaving event April 27 at the ...

Mass head-shaving raises $200,000 Volunteers lose their hair so Children's can gain comprehensive cancer center designation November 15, 2009 By Yamiche Alcindor ...