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Understanding your health insurance coverage for young adults
Health insurance helps pay for costly medical treatment and can protect you and your family from financial hardship. Some people have private health i…
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Hudson
Hudson entered the world on March , . This is the day my heart left my own chest and was beating outside of my body. My whole world was immediately co…
Amy
It was July , I got up and went for a quick morning jog before work. It’s Iowa, it was hot and humid, but I was unusually winded after that jog. I fig…
How blood cancer patients can practice sun safety in the summer
For many, summer is a time to get out of the house. Vacations, backyard cookouts, going for walks in the park—there's no better time of year for havin…
Miriam
My name is Miriam Hernandez, and I have been a volunteer with The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society (LLS). I first started volunteering in working with th…
Graft-versus-host disease (GVHD)
disease (GVHD) is a potentially serious complication of allogeneic stem cell transplantation and allogeneic stem cell transplantation. In this treatm…
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Trisha
In November , Trisha and her husband were thrilled to have given birth to her second daughter. At this time, she went to visit her OBGYN for her -Week…
Hole in the Wall Gang Camp
To ensure that every child with a serious medical condition has the chance to experience the world of possibilities that camp has to offer; to provide…
Christa
I was diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) at three years old. I experienced two and a half years of chemotherapy, lumbar punctures, bloo…
NCI-Genetic Epidemiology Branch - Familial CLL
To study families with multiple cases of chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL). The National Cancer Institute (NCI) of the National Institutes of H…
Heavenly Hats
To provide hats for cancer patients and other medical patients who lose their hair due to a disease or the treatment of a disease; to provide hats to…
Munira
I will never underestimate my parents' sacrifices to provide my siblings and me with the millions of opportunities we have due to their hard work. My …
Dear Jack Foundation
To provide impactful programming benefiting adolescents and young adults diagnosed with cancer; to improve quality of life; to create positive health …
Mark
At the age of , my dad, Mark Brightbill, was diagnosed with Stage Hodgkin lymphoma and underwent chemo and radiation. The Tuesday after my now husba…
Yolanda
As many people were afraid to go to the doctor I was propelled to have a colonoscopy due to the death of Chadwick Bozeman. That decision changed my li…
Stories
Ariel
I was diagnosed with acute promyelocytic leukemia (APL) on January , . I hadn’t been feeling well for a while. I was having very odd symptoms. For exa…
Health Insurance and End-of-Life Care for People with Hematologic Malignancies
Patients with blood cancers from racial and ethnic minority groups are more likely to experience suboptimal (EOL) care. These disparities may be part…
Targeting Unmet Needs For B-cell Lymphomas
Over the past year, we explored whether there is a biological basis that helps explain why African and African American patients typically present wit…
Nathaniel
In at just months old, Nathaniel started to get sick on a regular basis. He started running a fever and his blood count was really low and we pushed…
Jim
In September of , my wife and I were in New Jersey with family celebrating Labor Day weekend when I passed out, fell and hit my head on a granite coun…
Joshua
Just three days after Christmas, my world was turned upside down. I was admitted to the hospital because I was unable to keep any food down and felt t…
Joshua
Just three days after Christmas, my world was turned upside down. I was admitted to the hospital because I was unable to keep any food down and felt t…
Understanding the drug resistance mechanism and developing new therapeutic strategies for Hairy Cell Leukemia variant
Most of the Hairy Cell Leukemia variant patients do not respond to conventional therapies. They develop resistance to the chemotherapy drugs and we wi…
Krisha
I started noticing some things were "off" with my body. In early August , my daughters noticed several large, unexplained bruises on my legs. I just b…
Living with Acute Leukemia
Lashelle
In , knots started to appear on my neck and jawline. My face was also massively swollen. I was unrecognizable. I had difficulty breathing, and major p…
Living with Acute Leukemia
Living with NHL