“I was first diagnosed with mono(nucleosis), so I came back to school my second semester, not knowing I had cancer. I would fall asleep on my books, and I didn’t even know it. I wasn’t eating, so a whole bunch of things added up for me and when I went home in the summer, I told my mom I still wasn’t feeling well, and she suggested that I go to the doctor, just in case. My doctor did blood work and all of my levels were crazy, so I was sent to an oncologist. The oncologist found a huge lump on the side of my neck that no one had seen before; I didn’t even notice it. It was biopsied, and from March (2014) to August (2014), it went from Stage 1 to Stage 3, and it spread from my neck, my chest, under my arm and into my spleen, which is below the diaphragm. So, when it’s below the diaphragm, it is diagnosed as Stage 3. I’m in remission now; I go back (to the oncologist) every three months for tests.” – Danielle El-Jor, Hodgkin’s lymphoma cancer survivor
“I was first diagnosed with mono(nucleosis), so I came back to school my second semester, not knowing I had cancer. I would fall asleep on my books, and I didn’t even know it. I wasn’t eating, so a whole bunch of things added up for me and when I went home in the summer, I told my mom I still wasn’t feeling well, and she suggested that I go to the doctor, just in case. My doctor did blood work and all of my levels were crazy, so I was sent to an oncologist. The oncologist found a huge lump on the side of my neck that no one had seen before; I didn’t even notice it. It was biopsied, and from March (2014) to August (2014), it went from Stage 1 to Stage 3, and it spread from my neck, my chest, under my arm and into my spleen, which is below the diaphragm. So, when it’s below the diaphragm, it is diagnosed as Stage 3. I’m in remission now; I go back (to the oncologist) every three months for tests.” – Danielle El-Jor, Hodgkin’s lymphoma cancer survivor
