Racial Differences in Blood Cancer...Cancer development, treatment, and outcomes are tricky topics to understand. The underlying reasons why a person gets cancer or how they might...reactions3comments
CAR T-Cell Therapy Costs: Why is it So Expensive?...If you know anything about chimeric antigen receptor T-cell therapy (CAR T-cell therapy), you’re likely to know it’s expensive. Like crazy expensive...reactions6comments
Keep Your Hand on the Tiller...I like to sail. Until recently, I had a 25-foot Lancer. Ironically, I named her “Fargone,” as in, we-sail-off-and-are-far-gone. But a tree...reactions4comments
How My Anxious Dog Became My Best Therapy...After my stem cell transplant, I was depressed and anxious. I had naively assumed that my youngish age and physical conditioning prior...reactions6comments
No Soma Tonight in My Coffee......I really struggled with the title for this article. Because I’m a big Guess Who fan, this is what I ended up...reactions3comments
Cancer Made Me A Better Person...There is not one right or wrong way to do cancer. These words and this experience is wildly unique to everyone's personal...reactions6comments
Thank You!...We appreciate you taking the time to answer all of our questions. New here? We invite you to explore what our blood...reactionscomments
Self-Talk...It turns out, I talk out loud to myself. It’s a habit I seldom notice unless my wife is in the room...reactions5comments
Evaluation of Blood Counts in Polycythemia Vera...Polycythemia vera (PV) is a rare, low-growing blood cancer in which bone marrow produces excess red blood cells. You can have it...reactions1comment
After Your Cancer Diagnosis, Everyone Else Becomes an Expert...When cancer comes calling, it doesn’t exactly leave much time for packing before it rips you out of your normal life and...reactions8comments
A Case of the Bruise...I’ve been on two different steroids for over 8 years. I’ve been taking a baby aspirin every day for over 8 years...reactions8comments
Laughter as Medicine...I remember my dad saying to me when I was a little girl, "I think you have your giggle box turned over!"...reactions6comments
Fatigue Hit Me Like A Bus...It’s been really rough recently. My energy levels have been declining. I tried to ignore it, to not focus on it, to hope...reactions2comments
Juggling Act...For many, managing blood cancer may be the most hectic experience of our lives. What I mean is that there are many...reactions6comments
Listen to Your Fatigue, it's Trying to Tell You Something...In between chemotherapy sessions, while recovering at home, I could tell when my red blood cell count was so low that I...reactions2comments
Project Spew Away...There was no taste to food anymore. I chewed slowly trying to find it. The texture was revolting without taste. I had...reactions9comments
Survivor Sadness...Last week was a huge milestone for me personally; I was declared ‘cured’ from my lymphoma, after 3 years of treatments and...reactions21comments
When Do You Know?...It dawned on me after attending a very lively, but gloomy conference that we all have an impending cloud following us. Though...reactions8comments
What to Know About Cancer and COVID-19 (Coronavirus)...The spread of the novel coronavirus, COVID-19, has changed our daily lives. But people with a higher risk for illness from COVID-19...reactions1comment
Losing Height with Multiple Myeloma...Often these days, I find myself humming a song of my youth aptly titled “Short People.” In fact, once I start humming...reactions4comments
