VinnieCent

Hello! I’m aware that it has been a while since I’ve written anything. When it comes to participating in the blood cancer community, I have generally done so as a...

Hi! I'm Vincent Goodwin, aka Vinnie Cent. I am a childhood cancer survivor and advocate for Blood-Cancer.com. I was diagnosed with AML at age 15 and am now celebrating 30...

Looking back on my experiences I was privileged as a cancer patient. Being diagnosed with AML at 15 was only relatively challenging in the moment, and it all seems trivial...

When you survive a life-threatening disease like cancer, there is a transition period where patients learn how to incorporate that experience into their lives moving forward. For me, survival was...

When I was diagnosed with leukemia, my self-esteem was not in great condition. I remember specifically thinking to myself “nobody will even know that I’m gone.” As a junior in...

I was your everyday high school student before being diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia (AML) in 2003. Going into my junior year at 15 years old, I spent the summer months...