Do you have a family member or close friend suffering from leukemia? While there are many topics covered here at There Goes My Hero, let’s discuss some of the unspoken emotional and mental voids your loved one may have:
Being alone in the hospital is a recurring nightmare for patients suffering with debilitating disease and their energy-consuming treatments. Put yourself in their body, facing your common routines and issues of life with the addition of a cancer diagnosis; alongside secondary or...

Children diagnosed with cancer, what comes first to mind? Chemotherapy, loss of hair, debilitation? Remember the silent side effects that chemo/radiation has on a developing brain. Memory loss, short attention spans, and daily routine tasks are sometimes left unspoken. Parents of school-aged children who have had cancer and are returning to school must reach out to hospitals and homecare staff to utilize virtual learning.Unfortunately, both cancer and the side effects may be at the core of your...

Diversity is an urgent necessity when it comes to the bone marrow donor registry. Multiple myeloma (plasma cell cancer) is a form of blood cancer prevalent among the African population. Scientists have discovered that certain demographics like race, age, family medical history, gender, and previous exposure to radiation and other chemicals contributes to an exceedingly higher rate of acquiring the disease than patients of European descent. While these risk factors are not the only cause of multi...

Dementia is a symptom of possible declining brain function. It is not a disease per se, but rather a sign or clue that something else is happening under the surface of the mind. Dementia can occur within a variety of underlying causes, and among several different age groups. The most common cancers among children and early adulthood consist of brain tumors/cancers, leukemia, and spinal cancers. Over the past half-century, there has been an increased survival rate in pediatric cancer patients. Ca...