Spencer Daniel Bell tragically passed-away on December 3rd, 2006 just eleven days after learning that he had a 7.5” tumor in his abdomen area...and just five days after learning that it was Adrenal Cancer. He was only twenty years old.
Through this website we’re hoping to honor Spencer’s many talents as an artist, poet, lyricist, singer and composer by using his gifts to help bring attention and contributions to the University of Michigan Adrenal Cancer Clinic in Ann Arbor.
Adrenal Cancer is only one of thousands of “orphan diseases” that do not get a lot of press or attention due to their rarity. Striking only two or three hundred Americans per year, it is not a “common - enough” cancer to generate the headlines and interest of some other, more prevalent diseases. Still, Adrenal Cancer is painfully representative of the mountains of work that yet needs to be done in order to understand and, possibly, cure or even prevent this and other rare and deadly cancers in the future.
That is why we encourage you to link over to the University of Michigan’s Comprehensive Cancer Center - to learn more of the wonderful advances being made in all areas of Cancer research and, in particular, the one that took our son, brother and friend Spencer Daniel Bell.
If you weren't able to make it to the concert or silent auction, we ask that you’ll consider making a donation to the University of Michigan’s Adrenal Cancer Program in Spencer Bell’s name. Your generosity will come back to you a thousand-fold. It always does!
It was indeed a "One in a Million Night" on September 7th when over 750 people joined together at the Royal Oak Music Theatre for an evening of live and silent auction bidding and, of course, great music.
Overall, the night pulled in nearly $70,000 for the University of Michigan's Adrenal Cancer Research efforts, bringing the total contributions in Spencer's name since his passing last December 3rd to over $80,000!!! An amazing number thanks to the generosity, love and caring of so many amazing people. Read the whole thing...
Memorial Slideshow by Patrick Kerrigan & Martin Michalek
Family keeps Spencer Bell’s musical legacy on ‘Earth’ -By Eric Czarnik, C & G Staff Writer A year and a half after young musician Spencer Bell died of adrenal cancer, his family and friends are doing their part to wipe the disease off the face of the earth.
Music refuses to die at cancer charity concert -Eric Czarni, C&G Newspapers From beginning to end, Spencer Bell poured his life into music. He listened to 1970s tunes on his parents’ old jukebox before he could...
Spencer Bell of The Stevedores -Amy Dupack, Beyond Race Magazine The Stevedores formed in the basement of their old house in Fleetwood, New York, just north of the city. The five members combined individual...
