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Blood Cancer United

Todo Sobre El Cáncer: Guia Para Adolescentes (A Teen's Guide to Everything Cancer)

Irene Ghobrial, M.D., is trying to identify what causes myeloma cells to become drug resistant.  She is also leading research to try to understand how to treat premalignant conditions like monoclonal gammopathy of undetermined significance (MGUS) and smoldering myeloma before they become the more deadly acute myeloid leukemia and myeloma, respectively. Dr. Ghobrial, along with DFCI’s Robert Soiffer, M.D., also leads LLS and DFCI’s collaboration through LLS’s Therapy Acceleration Program to bring clinical trials to local community cancer centers. Dr. Ghobrial currently leads an LLS Specialized Center of Research (SCOR) grant, and also has a Translational Research Program grant.

Irene

Researcher

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Natalia

Stage 3 Burkitt lymphoma (BL)

Jessica

Stage 4 Hodgkin lymphoma (HL)

Jace

Non-Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL)

Jaime, Myeloma Survivor, photographed in athletic gear

Jamie

Myeloma Survivor

Grace

stage 2B nodular sclerosis Hodgkin lymphoma (NSHL)

Sydney

Hodgkin lymphoma (HL)

Dawson

acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL)

Jeffrey

multiple myeloma (MM)

Gina

acute myeloid leukemia (AML)

Young girl smiling broadly

Louise

ALL Survivor

Jay

chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL)

Jack

stage II Hodgkin lymphoma (HL)

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