Ashley Oakes – Blessed to Have Her Son, Her Family, and Her Life
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Ashley Oakes
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Retired MDS Patient Living Life to the Fullest Since Transplant
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Kathryn Bauer
I retired from Dun & Bradstreet, after 35 years of working all over the US and Europe as a business analyst and Vice President of Operations and Data Acquisition. I was living the life I had always aspired to -- traveling, volunteering for a number of non-profit organizations, taking the occasional consulting job, enjoying a few classes at the local college, and just having fun.
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Long-term survivor and dedicated volunteer
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Ruth Cuadra
2015 will mark the 17th anniversary of my victory over myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS). An unrelated-donor bone marrow transplant saved my life and cured me of the disease in 1998.
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Timothy Graubert, MD
Graubert, Timothy
Director, Hematologic Malignancies Program, Hagler Family Chair in Oncology, Professor of Medicine
Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School
Dr. Graubert’s research focuses on the molecular pathogenesis of myeloid leukemias. While at Washington University in St. Louis, he and his colleagues used genome sequencing technology extensively to gain insights into the genetic basis of human cancer and to use this information to improve risk stratification tools and identify targets for novel therapy. Their group published the first complete genome sequence of a human cancer (
Agent Orange, United States Military Veterans, and Myelodysplastic Syndromes
Inspiring young survivors
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Chris Nein
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Eric Hodies – A Study in Attitude and Self-Advocacy
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Eric Hodies
The Diagnosis
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Mother Tells How Son’s Aplastic Anemia Impacted Entire Family
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David, Nicholas and Elizabeth Manley
A horrifying diagnosis
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Mary Miller: Beyond Watch and Wait - A Mind, Body, Spirit Approach to Living with MDS
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Mary Miller
In 2005 at age 70, Mary Miller of Doylestown, Pennsylvania was diagnosed with MDS. Now 77, she says of her diagnosis, “My initial reaction was that I had never heard of it, so I looked it up online and scared myself half to death!”
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Mikkael Sekeres, MD, MS
Nimer, Stephen
Physician Liaison in Hematology and Chief of the Division of Hematology in the Department of Medicine
Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center and University of Miami
Mikkael A. Sekeres, MD, MS has been Medical Advisory Board Co-Chair since 2004. He is currently the Physician Liaison in Hematology and Chief of the Division of Hematology at the Sylvester Comprehensive Center at the University. Previously, Dr. Sekeres was the professor of medicine, director of the leukemia program, and Vice Chair for