Here is a story to make you smile. You don’t even have to be a football fan. It’s the story of James Conner, running back for the Arizona Cardinals in the National Football League. He was diagnosed with Hodgkin’s in 2015 while a Junior at the University of Pittsburgh. He had already played two years of outstanding football, winning the Atlantic Coast Conference Player of the Year in 2014, his sophomore year.
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What Does it Take to Harmonize the World’s Hodgkin Lymphoma Data?
In the first episode of The HemOnc Pulse in 2024, the lead researchers of the Hodgkin Lymphoma International Study for Individual Care (HoLISTIC) consortium discuss the immense labor and fortitude it took to successfully launch the consortium, which includes a global team of diverse experts focused on the prognosis, epidemiology, treatment, survivorship, and health outcomes in patients with Hodgkin lymphoma.
A Man With Breast Cancer After Mantle Radiation
Men with breast cancer tend to have a worse prognosis than women, as they commonly have more advanced disease at diagnosis. While many practitioners utilize mammography screening for women, there is less awareness of recommendations regarding screening for men.
It Takes a Lifetime to Survive Childhood Cancer
One night in 1981, in the middle of bath time, Marty Gonzalez noticed a strange glow that seemed to emanate from inside one of the eyes of her 9-month-old daughter, Marissa.
Comorbidities Muddy Acute MI Diagnosis in Patients with Cancer Presenting with Chest Pain
Patients with cancer had a higher rate of acute MI when presenting to the ED with chest pain.
Significant Progression-Free Survival in Stage III/IV Classic Hodgkin Lymphoma
A Phase III trial has demonstrated that patients with advanced Stage III/IV classic Hodgkin lymphoma who underwent initial treatment with nivolumab, a PD-1 checkpoint inhibitor, and AVD chemotherapy (N-AVD) had a significantly lower risk of their cancer getting worse than patients treated with brentuximab vedotin, a monoclonal antibody, and AVD (BV-AVD) a year after starting treatment.
How Do I Find Survivorship Care?
As part of LLS’s series “How Do I?”, Dr. Samantha Siegel, Onco-PCP expert explains how to find survivorship care after cancer treatment.
Prevalence of Functional Limitations More than Doubles Among Cancer Survivors
The number of cancer survivors with self-reported functional limitations throughout the United States has more than doubled over the past 2 decades, according to data published in JAMA Oncology.
Childhood Cancer Survivors Have Increased Rates of Late, Major Surgeries
Childhood cancer survivors have increased rates of undergoing late, major surgical procedures 5 or more years after diagnosis, according to data from the Childhood Cancer Survivor Study.
A Large Case-Control Study of Hodgkin Lymphoma Survivors Suggests a Dose-Response Association of Colorectal Cancer Risk With Subdiaphragmatic Radiotherapy
The first study to demonstrate an association between therapeutic radiation dose to the large bowel and colorectal cancer.