A Routine Test Led to My Hodgkin Lymphoma Diagnosis: Danielle's Story | The Patient Story

It was a shock to Danielle and her family, when her mother was diagnosed with a rare blood cancer, myelofibrosis. Her mother needed a donor to get a stem cell transplant and tests showed Danielle was a good match. Danielle then went to get a routine chest x-ray and it showed a tumor near her heart. She was then diagnosed with stage 1 classical Hodgkin lymphoma.

Danielle began chemotherapy in January and achieved remission after 4 cycles. However, after finishing the full 8 cycles of chemotherapy, a follow-up PET scan showed the cancer wasn't gone.

Danielle underwent immunotherapy to get back into remission before receiving an autologous stem cell transplant from her brother. A PET scan 100 days post-transplant showed no evidence of disease!

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Contents of video:
00:00 Introduction
03:07 My mom's cancer diagnosis
05:35 Preparing to donate stem cells for a transplant
09:19 Getting the diagnosis
13:17 How I processed my diagnosis
19:21 Learning about my reoccurrence
25:33 Processing my reoccurrence
36:42 Words of advice

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