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Jace

Jace, bald, smiling slightly, hands pressed together in prayer, stands outside in a crowd of people doing yoga.

Jace has a passion for health and wellness, so being diagnosed with an aggressive form of non-Hodgkin lymphoma was the last thing he expected.

Credit: National Cancer Institute

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While sitting in his home office, Jace received news from his doctor that he had non-Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL). “Then I had to call my parents to tell them,” Jace said. “That was really hard, especially because I’m an only child.”

Twenty-five-year-old Jace confronted his mortality over the next year of treatment. He was excelling in his career but was now faced with getting his affairs in order. He recalled working on it with his dad, “but we were both just broken.”

Jace currently has no sign of disease and is returning to time with family and playing blues guitar. He attributes this outcome in part to the doctors who used data to create a successful treatment plan for his type of NHL. Also crucial was connecting with others who shared his diagnosis. “It’s our collective experience,” Jace said, “that allows us to get close to these solutions.”

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