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Dr. Kara Kelly with colleague Douglas McDaniel, DACM, Dipl. Ac. (NCCAOM), L.Ac., at Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center, treating a patient
BRIDGING THE GAP IN
ADOLESCENT AND YOUNG ADULT LYMPHOMA RESEARCH
“Adolescent and young adult patients need advocates to help make sure they’re able to experience improvements in care just like everyone else.” Lymphoma is a disease that does not discriminate. It impacts both young and old with equal intensity. It does not show preference to the elderly or otherwise infirmed and it is gender neutral. So, when Kara Kelly, MD, an oncologist and researcher at Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center, decided to go into the field of pediatric oncology, she was fulfilling an ongoing need within the field of cancer research and care. Each year, nearly 70,000 adolescents and young adults (AYA) are diagnosed with cancer; and lymphoma, the most common type of blood cancer, accounts for nearly 1 in 5 cancer diagnoses among young people. Since this is a historically underserved population, Dr. Kelly is working tirelessly to ensure that AYA patients have advocates within the lymphoma community.
PULSE | SPRING EDITION 2020
