Hear candid conversations between people conquering cancer — patients, their family and friends, and doctors and researchers working to help us all.
One morning—not long after beginning chemotherapy—Auburn woke up with intense stomach pain and nausea.
She’d recently been diagnosed with Hodgkin’s lymphoma, a blood cancer that often requires an extremely challenging regimen of chemotherapy. But now, with Auburn clinging to life and struggling with a dangerous infection, chemo would have to wait.
Auburn spent the next 17 days in the hospital, including the first six days in the ICU, where doctors connected her infection to a bad reaction to her first round of chemotherapy. Fortunately, her situation was about to take a significant turn for the better.
When the time came for radiation treatment, Auburn was referred to Dr. Raymond Mailhot, whose Conquer Cancer-funded research gave him unique insight into building safer, personalized, and more tolerable courses of care for younger patients. Ten months after that first visit to the emergency room, Auburn received the best news possible: She had reached remission. Now, three years cancer-free, Auburn is determined to pick up where she left off when cancer forced her to put her future on pause. In this Your Stories episode, Auburn and Dr. Mailhot talk about her journey from diagnosis through recovery, her plans for the future, and why continued cancer research is critical for young patients everywhere.
