Brescia Dover’s story about her Hodgkin’s diagnosis will be familiar to many. She was diagnosed at age 20, just as she was entering the exciting and promising world of adulthood. Cancer stopped her in her tracks- but not for long. Brescia was lucky to have a fellow cancer survivor as her physician. Dr. Allison Rosenthal of the Mayo Clinic’s Adolescent and Young Adult Cancer Program was a survivor of leukemia, receiving the diagnosis when she was a medical student. She experienced the same upending of her life that Brescia would have. She understood the challenges that Brescia would face as few physicians could. This is a great story of two amazing survivors.
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