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Other Disease Studies

Another type of study that blood cancer patients and their relatives can participate in is a nontherapeutic study. Nontherapeutic studies aren't consi…

Barry

I was diagnosed with non-Hodgkin lymphoma in May of 2003. The diagnosis came after three or four months of tests attempting to diagnose a lump from m…

Jonathan

This story is memory of my late fiancé, Jonathan Bentley, who passed away from acute promyelocytic leukemia (APL) at the age of 33 after a week-long b…

Disease- and Treatment-Related Pain

People with cancer can have pain caused by the cancer itself, its treatment, or both. They may also have pain caused by other health problems that are…

William

Hi, my name is William Yank and I am a 23-year-old, three-time leukemia survivor from Indiana. My story begins at the end of my junior year of college…

Immunitas Therapeutics Completes $58 Million Series B Financing to Advance Pipeline into the Clinic and Expand Single Cell Analysis Drug Development Platform

Waltham, Mass., August 18, 2021 – Immunitas Therapeutics (“Immunitas”), a single cell genomics-based therapeutics company, today announced the complet…

Suggested Reading - Four Walls: Breaking Through Life’s Challenges, One Wall at a Time: A Memoir of Battling Cancer

Kimberly

My wife was in the thick of her emergency medicine residency when life threw us a curveball — she was unexpectedly diagnosed with Hodgkin lymphoma (HL…

Dianne

When I was a little girl, I knew I wanted to be a nurse so I could help people. I did become a registered nurse, predominately in critical care settin…

Grace

Volunteering for an organization was part of my senior capstone in the Spring of 2021. I wanted to volunteer for an organization that was for the long…

Bradley

I was diagnosed with mantle cell lymphoma (MCL) on February 13, 2017. I went to MD Anderson since I was already living in Houston, Texas. I was a past…

Grace

I went to a simple doctor's appointment on October 27, and from that day on, my life flipped upside down. I was diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leu…

Molly

Molly was just 2 years old when diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL). We noticed a few petechiae on her back and went to see her pediatr…

Rhonda

In 2012, I was diagnosed with stage 4 non-Hodgkin lymphoma. I had 10 rounds of radiation and six treatments of chemotherapy (R-Chop). It was a very ro…

Living with NHL

Ryan

I am a cancer and bone marrow transplant survivor. In June 2013, at the end of my eighth grade, I was diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia (AML). On …

Miguel

Miguel was diagnosed with non-Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL) in early 2017. He was an active, healthy man his entire life, so this diagnosis came as a total s…

Courtney

In 2007, I was diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukemia. After a long and painful 2 year and 3 month treatment full of chemotherapy, a coma, IV's. …

Peter

I do not aspire to be a hero, I just want other patients to realize that any one of us can have a long life after receiving such a horrible diagnosis.…

Mary Elizabeth

When Mary Elizabeth was 10 years old, she noticed a large lump on her neck. Her parents also noticed her lack of energy, but doctor after doctor could…

Kim

On February 22, 2011, our 2½-year-old Abigail just stopped walking. We were baffled and took her to the pediatrician who sent us to the hospital to ha…

Dare 2 Dream

Maria

My son, AJ, was diagnosed with leukemia on September 23, 2014, and from then on, our life changed. AJ had bumps, turns, and stops during his treatment…

Caregiver

Dare 2 Dream