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In Their Own Words….

Start each day of the symposium with our special Patient Perspective Videos. These survivors share their personal transplant or CAR T-cell experience.
 
  • Crystal and Eric Shaw discuss Eric’s rare diagnosis and the challenges of caregiving through three stem cell transplants.
  • Gay Lynn Fox talks about CAR T-cell therapy and the emotional roller coaster during and after treatment.
  • Jim Finley, firefighter, shares how surviving a suicide bombing in Iraq compared to his stem cell transplant experience.
  • Michael and Ashlee Cramer, transplant survivor, and his mom found the “beauty in pain” and started a podcast – Michael and Mom Talk Cancer.
  • Michael Riotto discusses his multiple myeloma diagnosis and his work as a patient advocate on Capitol Hill.
  • Nancy Lowry is the longest-living transplant survivor in the world.  She and her twin sister Barb, who was her bone marrow donor, discuss their history-making transplant.
  • Peter Feinberg discusses graft-versus-host disease and the challenges of returning to an active life.
  • Zac Mirecki and Carolyn Brodginski, discuss how Carolyn, a therapeutic musician, was one of the many silver linings in Zac's transplant journey.

 

 

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