Stephen Rossetti is not a stranger to the Las Vegas strip.

For years, the Wilmington native enjoyed trips with family and friends.

“There’s a lot to do out there, it’s the shows and stuff,” Rossetti said. “But mainly it’s just to be with my family.”

Three years ago, Rossetti was diagnosed with stage four renal cell carcinoma. He was given less than a year to live.

Rossetti’s trips to Vegas were put on pause.

“Stephen and I just kind of got along right away and he’s had a lot of financial toxicity as a direct result of his cancer,” Erin Jewell said, Oncology Social Worker at Beth Israel Deaconess Center at Winchester Center for Cancer Care.

Jewell came up with an idea.

“So one of his ideas was a family reunion trip to Las Vegas and I said, ‘You know what, we might be able to make tha

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