Pati Stiles Day
Co - Founder

Mercy Hiller
Co-Founder Chair

Mercy’s mother was diagnosed in 1987 with Stage IV breast cancer. There wasn’t a cancer center in Key West so Mercy’s mom had to leave her family, friends, her support system and home to live with Mercy while she underwent her cancer treatments in Charleston, SC. In 1991 at the age of 57 Mercy’s mother died of breast cancer.

Mercy knew she had to do something so that no one in her hometown had to leave their community to have cancer treatments. Mercy applied to the Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston, SC in the fall of 1992 to enter into their BS in Radiation Therapy program. In 1994 she graduated with her BS in Radiation Therapy degree.
She moved to Key West in May of 1994 and opened the first cancer center on the island and is still there as the administrator 22 years later.