Eleven years ago, Nicole Schulz was a typical teenager who loved cheerleading and surfing. But when she started feeling tired all the time, her parents took her for a blood test. Just hours later, she was diagnosed with acute myelogenous leukemia.
She immediately started chemotherapy, followed by total body radiation and a bone marrow transplant. The intense treatment put her in remission — until her cancer returned two years later and she went through the whole thing over again.
Today, Nicole is now a two-time cancer survivor with a bright future ahead of her.
At City of Hope, we're bringing groundbreaking research from the lab bench to the bedside to help people like Nicole.
Help us continue this important work. With your support, we will be the first to inject CAR-T cells, a personalized form of immunotherapy, directly into a tumor. It's our hope that solid tumors — including brain tumors, which are one of the most difficult types of cancer to treat — will respond as well to this treatment as blood cancers do.
We believe that the impossible is — in fact — possible. If you do, too, add your name to support groundbreaking cancer research and treatments!
