In January 2017, I was 24 years old and had just started working in a hospital in the northeast. Mere days after starting my new job, my dad was diagnosed with metastatic liver cancer. He was hospitalized where I worked, so I was able to have lunch with him every day. A few months later, I had to be admitted to the hospital when I started having severe stomach pain while visiting him.
The doctors thought I may have a hernia...
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When Jorge Castillo’s back began to ache, he thought he’d injured himself at work.
“I install and repair electrical power grids, so I do a lot of climbing, twisting and bending,” he says. “It’s a physically demanding job.”
But Jorge soon learned that his back pain signaled the onset of acute lymphoblastic leukemia, or ALL – an aggressive cancer of the blood and bone marrow.
In patients with acute lymphoblastic leukemia...
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