Rosie

Blood cancers like leukemia and lymphoma don't just affect people. They unfortunately also affect animals like dogs, cats, cows, etc. This is a picture of Rosie who was one of my very sweet patients for a while last year. Just like it happens in humans, Rosie started to develop a lump under her chin that caused her owner to take her to the doctor. That doctor was me. I had to break the news to her owner that Rosie had lymphoma and that she probably would not live long without a lot of medical care.
Luckily, many therapies have been developed that can eradicate disease or at least cause the human and animal patients to go into remission for many years. In a dog's case, 6 months to a year of extra life is a lot, and Rosie ended up being euthanized 7 months after her initial diagnosis since her quality of life had decreased too much.
Julie and I are doing our event in the hope that life can be lengthened for all who are affected by cancers like lymphoma.

- Dan