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Halley
My story with cancer began long before I was diagnosed this year at 33. When I was 4 years old, my 18-month-old sister, Hannah, became too tired to pl…
Amanda
My name is Amanda, and I am a stage 4b classical multicellularity Hodgkin lymphoma (CHL) survivor. It all started after spring break of my junior year…
Skylar
As a parent, there are few words that can knock you on your feet. “Your child has cancer” is one of those phrases that can make you fall apart in an i…
Treatment
Polycythemia Vera (PV) is a chronic disease: It's not curable, but it can usually be managed effectively for very long periods. The goal of therapy is…
Infections
Cancer patients, especially those undergoing chemotherapy, are more likely to get infections because of their weakened immune systems. Cancer and cert…
Pain
A cancer diagnosis does not mean that you will have pain. Still, many people with cancer do have pain at some point. Good pain control is part of prop…
Erika
I am a 36-year-old cancer survivor. In February 2014, I found a suspect lump and had become unusually tired. I was a career-driven single mother of a …
David
On June 17, 2014, 12-year-old David Stim visited his pediatrician's office to have a routine school physical. During the exam, the nurse practitioner …
Dating, Sexuality & Intimacy
As a young adult you may be dating, in a relationship, or married. Cancer can make navigating romantic relationships complicated. Dating Dating …
Graham
In the fall of 2008, my wife and I got married. Shortly after returning from our honeymoon, I began developing pains and weakness in my joints. This c…
Mobile Terms & Conditions
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FDA Approves New Type of BTK Inhibitor to Treat Mantle Cell Lymphoma
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today approved pirtobrutinib (Jaypirca™), the first non-covalent, reversable BTK inhibitor for the treatment of …
News Release
Richard
“I have lost my hero, I have lost my friend, but for you, my darling, I would do it all again.”I feel so blessed to have had the joy of meeting her an…
Vaccinations and blood cancer
Many types of blood cancer can reduce the ability to fight infections. Blood cancer, as well as its treatment, can also affect the level or length of …
Support Resources
Madeleine
We were lucky. It seems strange to frame it that way, but it's true.My 16-year-old daughter discovered a lump in her neck back in April of 2020. Becau…
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James
I was diagnosed with stage 3 follicular lymphoma (FL), a type of non-Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL), at the end of 2017, and our world was turned upside down.…
Lori
Lori’s journey to becoming a Leukemia & Lymphoma Society (LLS) volunteer began back in 2002 through her own experience with being diagnosed with Myelo…
Supportive Care
Treatment given to relieve the symptoms of a disease and the treatment’s side effects is known as supportive care. The goal of supportive care is to i…
Treatment
There is not one treatment that is effective for all myelofibrosis (MF) patients. Patients have varying symptoms and circumstances that require differ…
Low Blood Counts
Cancer therapy can lower your blood cell counts and chemotherapy especially can affect rapidly dividing bone marrow cells. This hinders the marrow's a…
Integrative Medicine and Complementary Therapies
Integrative medicine (IM) is a form of medical therapy that combines practices and treatments from complementary medicine (yoga, acupuncture and massa…
Yesenia
My name is Yesenia and this is my story. I began my first semester of university in fall 2017. While I was away for college I started experiencing som…
LLS recomienda a los pacientes con cáncer de la sangre que se vacunen, ya que su Registro Nacional de Pacientes ingresa en la siguiente fase de los estudios de las vacunas contra la COVID-19
Rye Brook, N.Y., 15 de julio de 2021—The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society® (LLS) comenzó esta semana el reclutamiento para un nuevo estudio que evalúa la r…
FDA Approves the First Interferon for Adults With Polycythemia Vera
This is the first medication approved for PV that patients can take regardless of their treatment history, meaning it can be used to treat this rare f…
Myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS) treatment
Every patient’s situation should be evaluated individually by a hematologist-oncologist who specializes in treating MDS and who will discuss the disea…
Blood Cancer