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Ballarat Falcons put gridiron in limelight for teammate’s fight with lymphoma

On Saturday 15 September – World Lymphoma Awareness Day – the Ballarat Falcons Gridiron Club turned their final home game lime green to support Lymphoma Australia’s lymphoma nurse campaign to provide specialist nurses and education.

Ballarat Gridiron president Casey Marin hoped it could be a chance for
people to turn out and enjoy the game, even if they did not know a lot
about the sport.

“When our player was diagnosed about two to three months ago, we sat down and thought, let’s actually do something…We want to raise awareness but we also want to do our bit for the foundation,” Ms Marin said.

 




Donations can be made here: http://www.everydayhero.com.au/event/tackling-lymphoma

Full News Article: https://www.thecourier.com.au/story/5642708/falcons-put-gridiron-in-limelight-for-teammates-fight-with-lymphoma/?cs=12

 

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  • Refractory: This means the lymphoma does not get better with treatment. The treatment didn’t work as hoped.
  • Relapsed: This means the lymphoma came back after being gone for a while after treatment.
  • 2nd line treatment: This is the second treatment you get if the first one didn’t work (refractory) or if the lymphoma comes back (relapse).
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You need healthy T-cells to make CAR T-cells. For this reason, CAR T-cell therapy cannot be used if you have a T-cell lymphoma – yet.

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Special Note: Although your T-cells are removed from your blood for CAR T-cell therapy, most of our T-cells live outside of our blood – in our lymph nodes, thymus, spleen and other organs.