The Lymphoma Awareness T-Shirt
& Gift Shop
How We Got Started
The Lymphoma Awareness T-Shirt Shop was established in February 2007 by a pair of sisters, one who survived two battles of Lymphoma and the other who saved her life by donating her stem cells for a rare but life saving syngeneic stem cell transplant to help her sister. Through their partnership with Cafepress, they open their lymphoma ribbon t-shirt shop to help raise awareness and support for all types of lymphomas, including Non-Hodgkin's and Hodgkin's Lymphoma.
For over two
years, we as a family, witnessed what our sister endured battling an
advanced form of Hodgkin's Lymphoma (aka Hodgkin's Disease). The
unexpected journey started in the spring of 2005 when our sister was
diagnosed with this rare but deemed curable cancer during a routine
check-up for flu-like symptoms. After our sister's diagnosis, many in
the medical field as well as cancer patients commented that Hodgkin's
Lymphoma was the "good" cancer to get if you had to choose a cancer.
Unfortunately,
it was not the "good cancer" and the road to remission was a bumpy one
to say the least. It took a rare syngeneic stem cell transplant and
almost two years of back-to-back high dose chemotherapy treatment and
radiation therapy to bring our sister into remission status. As a
family, we experienced this two-year challenging journey right along
our sister. This sobering experience inspired us to do something
tangible in our sister's honor and in honor of other cancer warriors
and survivors to help promote worldwide awareness for Hodgkin's
Lymphoma, a cancer wrongly deemed the "good cancer".
In February 2007, Hope
& Dreams Cancer Awareness T-Shirt Shop was
launched in
partnership with CafePress to raise awareness and support for Hodgkin's
Lymphoma and all Lymphomas. Today, our
sister is in remission and working on recovering from the harsh
treatments. We are grateful to God that she has been given a
second opportunity to fulfill her hopes and dreams -- cancer free. Many
have asked how our sister got through two years of back-to-back cancer
treatment for aggressive Hodgkin's Lymphoma, her answer is:
determination, hope and most of all faith. Raising awareness is
our mission. With awareness, there is hope.
Samples of our lymphoma t-shirts
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