Lymphoma Survival Quotes

Don't delegate your survival to the doctors and hope for the best. You have to participate in your own cure. You have to fight.

Those who survived mustard-gas attacks later developed severe anemia, requiring monthly blood transfusions. They were also prone to recurrent, lingering, and sometimes fatal infections. In 1919, one year after World War I ended, two American pathologists, Helen and Edward Krumbhaar, performed autopsies on seventy-five soldiers who had been killed by mustard gas. They found that the gas depleted the bone marrow, where red blood cells, white blood cells, and platelets are made. They also found that lymph nodes, another source of white blood cells, had shrunk. The Krumbhaars published their findings in 1919. No one noticed. Specifically, no one recognized that if mustard gas could eliminate white blood cells and shrink lymph nodes, maybe it could also eliminate cancers of the bone marrow (leukemias) and cancers of the lymph nodes (lymphomas).

Cancer cells love eating glucose, but not exclusively. The metabolic pathways of the amino acid glutamine are also disrupted in cancer. 11 Amino acids are the building blocks of proteins, and glutamine is the most abundant amino acid in the blood. Some cancer cells consumed more than ten times the normal amount of glutamine. 12 Some cancers, such as neuroblastoma, lymphoma, and kidney and pancreatic cancer, appeared so “addicted” to glutamine that they simply couldn’t survive without it. 13