Ten-year-old Joseph Westphal has one wish this holiday season. He wishes he had some magic fairy dust he could sprinkle on all the patients at Roswell Park to make them well. And if he had any of this magic powder left, he would sprinkle it on the scientists so they could find a cure for cancer.

You see, Joseph knows first hand what it is like to be a cancer patient. He was just 11 months old when he was diagnosed with leukemia. His parents, Mary and Daniel, remember those difficult days of uncertainty well.

Mary recalls, "It was shocking, just unbelievable. You think of older people being diagnosed with cancer - not babies."

Joseph would be hospitalized for weeks at a time while he was aggressively treated with chemotherapy to kill the cancer. With support from family and friends, his parents made sure their baby was never alone in the hospital. As you can imagine, Joseph doesn't really remember those days and today he says he doesn't really think about being a cancer survivor.

This fifth grader currently plays “the boy” in the Studio Arena production of The Fourth Wiseman. Homework and hockey take a lot of his free time. And Joseph is a budding artist. One of his favorite activities is participating in the Roswell Park Paint Box Project. He prefers to work with markers. Four of his drawings are featured among this year's holiday cards.

"I like to draw and be with my friends at Roswell Park," Joseph remarks. "But mostly I'm glad about helping. The more money raised for cancer research, the greater the chances of finding a cure."

Joseph's message of hope for the holidays: "We (survivors) are the message. We are still alive, still helping others, still living life. So we are the hope to cancer patients that they can make it through cancer as we did."