Dr. Jeff Young: From Practitioner to Patient

It’s been more than half a year since I rang the bell at the hospital signaling that I was free of non-Hodgkins Lymphoma.

‘Forwards,’ the new album by Mike Peters and the Alarm, was written while he was hospitalized for treatment of chronic lymphocyte leukemia and pneumonia.

While PET scans have been used to predict Hodgkin lymphoma outcomes, adding Adcetris to frontline therapy improved outcomes for patients, regardless of their results.

Dr. Dawn Mussallem of the Mayo Clinic tells CURE®’s “Cancer Horizons” podcast about how surviving stage 4 non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma and being a heart transplant recipient helps her connect with her patients.

Beginning in the long, cold winter of 2022, I began a series of hospitalizations to treat my stage 2 non-specific non-Hodgkin Lymphoma. For the next six months, I would spend a week in the hospital every single month.

One side effect of chemotherapy that no one warned me about was frequent urination.