Holly

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Holly

diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL)

In February 2024, I had just entered my second trimester of pregnancy and woke up with a swollen lymph node on my neck about the size of a golf ball. After scans and two biopsies, I was diagnosed with diffuse large B-cell non-Hodgkin lymphoma (DLBCL). It was found to be high-grade (meaning it’s growing fast).

Robert

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Robert

diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL)

I’m 37 years old, and I was recently diagnosed with stage 4 high-grade diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL). Life was going well. I got promoted at my job and was doing great when all of a sudden, my life changed forever. It started with severe leg and back pain. I went to the hospital and had some basic tests done, and they sent me home.

Laura

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Laura

non-Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL)

My mom was diagnosed with non-Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL) in August 2022. Over the course of a year, she underwent chemotherapy, caught COVID-19, underwent CAR-T therapy, and fought through many respiratory infections. My mom was a fighter. She wasn’t going to let a cancer diagnosis slow her down. She wanted to live.

Daron

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Daron

non-Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL)

My cancer journey started back in 2021 during COVID. I worked in EMS as a paramedic. I started noticing that I was losing weight, coughing up blood, hurting continuously, losing my vision, and sleeping 16 hours a day or more while working in the medical field. I knew I was in grave danger.

Alacia

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Alacia

Hodgkin lymphoma (HL) and diffuse large B-cell non-Hodgkin lymphoma (DLBCL)

My darkest day, May 1, 2022. Alacia, my daughter, is a strong-willed, beautiful young woman. She had just turned 23 years of age and began experiencing small symptoms that I, her mother and a nurse of 24 years, chalked up to nothing. She was itching ― it was winter, and your skin was dry. She was short of breath ― you are recovering from COVID and have post-COVID funk.

Tuesday

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Tuesday

T-cell lymphoma (NHL)

Well, it all started when I felt sick all the time, not knowing what was going on with me, and the doctors couldn't figure it out either, so they would give me pain medicine and other medicines for pain. I had backaches all the time, symptoms of pregnancy and not pregnant, and I was feeling tired and fatigued all the time.

Bruce

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Bruce

mantle cell lymphoma (MCL)

I was diagnosed with stage III mantle cell lymphoma (MCL) in October 2004 following a routine physical exam. I wasn’t feeling ill, but since I quit smoking many years ago, as a precaution, my primary care physician recommended having a computed tomography (CT) scan of my lungs to see if I had any residual damage.

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