{"id":134882,"date":"2024-12-08T23:42:56","date_gmt":"2024-12-08T16:42:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=134882"},"modified":"2024-12-08T23:42:56","modified_gmt":"2024-12-08T16:42:56","slug":"when-a-child-gets-a-cancer-diagnosis-school-life-is-often-derailed-npr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=134882","title":{"rendered":"When a child gets a cancer diagnosis, school life is often derailed : NPR"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"storytext\">\n<div id=\"resg-s1-37365\" class=\"bucketwrap image large\">\n<div class=\"imagewrap has-source-dimensions\" data-crop-type=\"\" style=\"&#10;        --source-width: 5000;&#10;        --source-height: 2292;&#10;    \">\n        <picture><source srcset=\"https:\/\/npr.brightspotcdn.com\/dims3\/default\/strip\/false\/crop\/5000x2292+0+0\/resize\/1100\/quality\/85\/format\/webp\/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnpr-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F98%2F90%2Fe4a355f047beae820ae060e3f920%2Fyuki-story02-ej-lead-03.JPG\" class=\"img\" type=\"image\/webp\" data-template=\"https:\/\/npr.brightspotcdn.com\/dims3\/default\/strip\/false\/crop\/5000x2292+0+0\/resize\/{width}\/quality\/{quality}\/format\/{format}\/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnpr-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F98%2F90%2Fe4a355f047beae820ae060e3f920%2Fyuki-story02-ej-lead-03.JPG\" data-format=\"webp\"\/><source srcset=\"https:\/\/npr.brightspotcdn.com\/dims3\/default\/strip\/false\/crop\/5000x2292+0+0\/resize\/1100\/quality\/85\/format\/jpeg\/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnpr-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F98%2F90%2Fe4a355f047beae820ae060e3f920%2Fyuki-story02-ej-lead-03.JPG\" class=\"img\" type=\"image\/jpeg\" data-template=\"https:\/\/npr.brightspotcdn.com\/dims3\/default\/strip\/false\/crop\/5000x2292+0+0\/resize\/{width}\/quality\/{quality}\/format\/{format}\/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnpr-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F98%2F90%2Fe4a355f047beae820ae060e3f920%2Fyuki-story02-ej-lead-03.JPG\" data-format=\"jpeg\"\/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/npr.brightspotcdn.com\/dims3\/default\/strip\/false\/crop\/5000x2292+0+0\/resize\/1100\/quality\/85\/format\/jpeg\/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnpr-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F98%2F90%2Fe4a355f047beae820ae060e3f920%2Fyuki-story02-ej-lead-03.JPG\" class=\"img\" alt=\"Three pictures of EJ Beck are shown. In the first on the left, a happy 8-year-old hugs a book. In the middle, she is in a hospital bed wearing a blue gown, brown hair disheveled. In the photo at right, she is a poised young woman sitting outside. \" data-template=\"https:\/\/npr.brightspotcdn.com\/dims3\/default\/strip\/false\/crop\/5000x2292+0+0\/resize\/{width}\/quality\/{quality}\/format\/{format}\/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnpr-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F98%2F90%2Fe4a355f047beae820ae060e3f920%2Fyuki-story02-ej-lead-03.JPG\" data-format=\"jpeg\"\/>\n        <\/picture>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"credit-caption\">\n<div class=\"caption-wrap\">\n<div class=\"caption\" aria-label=\"Image caption\">\n<p>\n                At age 8 in 2009, EJ Beck hugs her favorite book, Laura Ingalls Wilder&#8217;s <em>These Happy Golden Years<\/em>. At 10, center, she is pictured in the hospital where she was treated for thyroid cancer. For Beck and her family, the <em>Happy Golden Years <\/em>image became emblematic of her life, before. At right, EJ Beck today is a 23-year-old medical student.<br \/>\n                <b class=\"credit\" aria-label=\"Image credit\"><\/p>\n<p>                    Beck family; Jos\u00e9 A. Alvarado Jr. for NPR<\/p>\n<p>                <\/b><br \/>\n                <b class=\"hide-caption\"><b>hide caption<\/b><\/b>\n            <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>            <b class=\"toggle-caption\"><b>toggle caption<\/b><\/b>\n    <\/div>\n<p>    <span class=\"credit\" aria-label=\"Image credit\"><\/p>\n<p>        Beck family; Jos\u00e9 A. Alvarado Jr. for NPR<\/p>\n<p>    <\/span>\n<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>EJ Beck was a bookish, wispy 10-year-old when a doctor found the thyroid cancer on her tiny neck that upended her life. Treatment for that cancer took Beck&#8217;s joyful school routine and replaced it with a complicated surgery, followed by a harrowing radiation treatment that made her so sick and radioactive, it required her to remain in a sealed chamber without human contact for many days.<\/p>\n<p>Beck, along with her parents, had decided not to tell friends, her teachers or even her two younger sisters about her illness, hoping that might help her slip back into normal life, eventually. But in the short term, it intensified her isolation in the hospital, where she passed her solitary confinement rereading the Harry Potter series and drawing on a picture of Spiderman posted to the window.<\/p>\n<aside id=\"ad-backstage-wrap\" class=\"ad-wrap backstage\" aria-label=\"advertisement\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>&#8220;I was so, so jealous because Spiderman could just leave the hospital, and I couldn&#8217;t,&#8221; Beck recalls. &#8220;Spiderman got to take radiation, and he got cool powers; I got sick and sad and lonely and tired.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Today, Beck is a 23-year-old medical student, and among <a href=\"https:\/\/cancercontrol.cancer.gov\/ocs\/statistics\">a growing population of 18 million people<\/a> who are surviving cancer for much longer, thanks to myriad recent advances like AI-powered tumor detection and new immunotherapies that chemically target cancers. Survival rates for pediatric cancer, in particular, are considered a crowning medical achievement: Those rates increased from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cancer.org\/cancer\/types\/cancer-in-children\/key-statistics.html#:~:text=at%20least%201975.-,Survival%20rates%20for%20children%20with%20cancer,information%20for%20that%20cancer%20type\">58% in the mid-1970s to 85% today<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div id=\"resnx-s1-5221433-100\" class=\"bucketwrap internallink insettwocolumn inset2col \">\n<div class=\"bucket img\">\n                  <a class=\"imagewrap\" id=\"featuredStackSquareImagenx-s1-5172234\" href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2024\/11\/11\/nx-s1-5172234\/cancer-survivorship-young-patient-profile\" data-metrics-ga4=\"{&quot;category&quot;:&quot;recirculation&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:&quot;story_recirculation_click&quot;,&quot;clickType&quot;:&quot;inset box&quot;,&quot;clickUrl&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.npr.org\\\/2024\\\/11\\\/11\\\/nx-s1-5172234\\\/cancer-survivorship-young-patient-profile&quot;}\"><picture><source srcset=\"https:\/\/npr.brightspotcdn.com\/dims3\/default\/strip\/false\/crop\/3965x3965+1233+0\/resize\/100\/quality\/15\/format\/jpeg\/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnpr-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F5a%2F25%2Fa04b95434dc3b85dc78d2c0af817%2Fgutman-npr-lourdesmonje-17.jpg\" data-original=\"https:\/\/npr.brightspotcdn.com\/dims3\/default\/strip\/false\/crop\/3965x3965+1233+0\/resize\/100\/quality\/100\/format\/jpeg\/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnpr-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F5a%2F25%2Fa04b95434dc3b85dc78d2c0af817%2Fgutman-npr-lourdesmonje-17.jpg\" data-template=\"https:\/\/npr.brightspotcdn.com\/dims3\/default\/strip\/false\/crop\/3965x3965+1233+0\/resize\/{width}\/quality\/{quality}\/format\/{format}\/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnpr-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F5a%2F25%2Fa04b95434dc3b85dc78d2c0af817%2Fgutman-npr-lourdesmonje-17.jpg\" data-format=\"webp\" class=\"img lazyOnLoad\" type=\"image\/webp\"\/><source srcset=\"https:\/\/npr.brightspotcdn.com\/dims3\/default\/strip\/false\/crop\/3965x3965+1233+0\/resize\/100\/quality\/15\/format\/jpeg\/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnpr-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F5a%2F25%2Fa04b95434dc3b85dc78d2c0af817%2Fgutman-npr-lourdesmonje-17.jpg\" data-original=\"https:\/\/npr.brightspotcdn.com\/dims3\/default\/strip\/false\/crop\/3965x3965+1233+0\/resize\/100\/quality\/100\/format\/jpeg\/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnpr-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F5a%2F25%2Fa04b95434dc3b85dc78d2c0af817%2Fgutman-npr-lourdesmonje-17.jpg\" data-template=\"https:\/\/npr.brightspotcdn.com\/dims3\/default\/strip\/false\/crop\/3965x3965+1233+0\/resize\/{width}\/quality\/{quality}\/format\/{format}\/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnpr-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F5a%2F25%2Fa04b95434dc3b85dc78d2c0af817%2Fgutman-npr-lourdesmonje-17.jpg\" data-format=\"jpeg\" class=\"img lazyOnLoad\" type=\"image\/jpeg\"\/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/npr.brightspotcdn.com\/dims3\/default\/strip\/false\/crop\/3965x3965+1233+0\/resize\/100\/quality\/100\/format\/jpeg\/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnpr-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F5a%2F25%2Fa04b95434dc3b85dc78d2c0af817%2Fgutman-npr-lourdesmonje-17.jpg\" data-template=\"https:\/\/npr.brightspotcdn.com\/dims3\/default\/strip\/false\/crop\/3965x3965+1233+0\/resize\/{width}\/quality\/{quality}\/format\/{format}\/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnpr-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F5a%2F25%2Fa04b95434dc3b85dc78d2c0af817%2Fgutman-npr-lourdesmonje-17.jpg\" data-format=\"jpeg\" class=\"img lazyOnLoad\" alt=\"Lourdes Monje, a young person with curly dark hair and glasses, sits on a bed next to a window. They are wearing a mauve colored dress and sweater.\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/picture><\/a>         <\/p>\n<p><!-- END CLASS=\"BUCKETBLOCK\" -->\n      <\/div>\n<p><!-- END CLASS=\"BUCKET IMG\" -->\n   <\/div>\n<p><!-- END ID=\"RESNX-S1-5221433-100\" CLASS=\"BUCKETWRAP INTERNALLINK INSETTWOCOLUMN INSET2COL \" --><\/p>\n<p>But in order to get on with life after treatment, Beck also had to overcome many of the <a href=\"https:\/\/link.springer.com\/article\/10.1007\/s11764-018-0725-5?fromPaywallRec=true\">less-discussed aftereffects<\/a> of cancer \u2013 notably the missed schooling and loss of identity and peer support that came with it, not to mention various other <a href=\"https:\/\/www.apa.org\/topics\/children\/cancer-psychological-impact\">cognitive <\/a>and physical impacts of treatment that deeply shape survivorship. Patients often feel forgotten when treatment ends, but <a href=\"https:\/\/ccss.stjude.org\/about-the-study.html\">research <\/a>shows the knock-on effects, from <a href=\"https:\/\/jamanetwork.com\/journals\/jamanetworkopen\/fullarticle\/2825630\">mental health<\/a> to <a href=\"https:\/\/publications.aap.org\/pediatrics\/article\/152\/1\/e2022059951\/191427\/Childhood-Cancer-Survivors-Financial-Toxicity-and?autologincheck=redirected\">financial challenges<\/a>, can persist decades into recovery.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"edTag\">Out of step with peers<\/h3>\n<p>Today Beck is cancer-free, but says she still feels she lives in its shadow \u2013 quite literally, in the sense that her apartment is within earshot of the sirens near the New York City hospital complex where she received treatment as a child.<\/p>\n<aside id=\"ad-secondary-wrap\" class=\"ad-wrap secondary\" aria-label=\"advertisement\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>Also, the experience forged her into who she is, she says, and left her feeling scholastically, socially, and emotionally out of step with peers. &#8220;It takes a really long time to feel like you&#8217;re falling into sync with everybody else,&#8221; Beck says. <strong>&#8220;<\/strong>Even if you would make it on to college with everyone else, you kind of feel like you&#8217;re marching to a slightly different beat and you&#8217;re trying really hard to keep up.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div id=\"resg-s1-37366\" class=\"bucketwrap image large\">\n<div class=\"imagewrap has-source-dimensions\" data-crop-type=\"\" style=\"&#10;        --source-width: 4777;&#10;        --source-height: 3244;&#10;    \">\n        <picture><source srcset=\"https:\/\/npr.brightspotcdn.com\/dims3\/default\/strip\/false\/crop\/4777x3244+0+0\/resize\/400\/quality\/85\/format\/webp\/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnpr-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fa5%2F8d%2F8cfdfe754d709382f04437cf5236%2Fyuki-story02-ej-beck-diptych.jpg 400w,&#10;https:\/\/npr.brightspotcdn.com\/dims3\/default\/strip\/false\/crop\/4777x3244+0+0\/resize\/600\/quality\/85\/format\/webp\/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnpr-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fa5%2F8d%2F8cfdfe754d709382f04437cf5236%2Fyuki-story02-ej-beck-diptych.jpg 600w,&#10;https:\/\/npr.brightspotcdn.com\/dims3\/default\/strip\/false\/crop\/4777x3244+0+0\/resize\/800\/quality\/85\/format\/webp\/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnpr-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fa5%2F8d%2F8cfdfe754d709382f04437cf5236%2Fyuki-story02-ej-beck-diptych.jpg 800w,&#10;https:\/\/npr.brightspotcdn.com\/dims3\/default\/strip\/false\/crop\/4777x3244+0+0\/resize\/900\/quality\/85\/format\/webp\/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnpr-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fa5%2F8d%2F8cfdfe754d709382f04437cf5236%2Fyuki-story02-ej-beck-diptych.jpg 900w,&#10;https:\/\/npr.brightspotcdn.com\/dims3\/default\/strip\/false\/crop\/4777x3244+0+0\/resize\/1200\/quality\/85\/format\/webp\/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnpr-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fa5%2F8d%2F8cfdfe754d709382f04437cf5236%2Fyuki-story02-ej-beck-diptych.jpg 1200w,&#10;https:\/\/npr.brightspotcdn.com\/dims3\/default\/strip\/false\/crop\/4777x3244+0+0\/resize\/1600\/quality\/85\/format\/webp\/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnpr-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fa5%2F8d%2F8cfdfe754d709382f04437cf5236%2Fyuki-story02-ej-beck-diptych.jpg 1600w,&#10;https:\/\/npr.brightspotcdn.com\/dims3\/default\/strip\/false\/crop\/4777x3244+0+0\/resize\/1800\/quality\/85\/format\/webp\/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnpr-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fa5%2F8d%2F8cfdfe754d709382f04437cf5236%2Fyuki-story02-ej-beck-diptych.jpg 1800w\" data-template=\"https:\/\/npr.brightspotcdn.com\/dims3\/default\/strip\/false\/crop\/4777x3244+0+0\/resize\/{width}\/quality\/{quality}\/format\/{format}\/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnpr-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fa5%2F8d%2F8cfdfe754d709382f04437cf5236%2Fyuki-story02-ej-beck-diptych.jpg\" sizes=\"(min-width: 1300px) 763px, (min-width: 1025px) calc(100vw - 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496px), (min-width: 768px) calc(100vw - 171px), calc(100vw - 30px)\" class=\"img\" type=\"image\/jpeg\"\/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/npr.brightspotcdn.com\/dims3\/default\/strip\/false\/crop\/4777x3244+0+0\/resize\/1100\/quality\/50\/format\/jpeg\/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnpr-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fa5%2F8d%2F8cfdfe754d709382f04437cf5236%2Fyuki-story02-ej-beck-diptych.jpg\" data-template=\"https:\/\/npr.brightspotcdn.com\/dims3\/default\/strip\/false\/crop\/4777x3244+0+0\/resize\/{width}\/quality\/{quality}\/format\/{format}\/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnpr-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fa5%2F8d%2F8cfdfe754d709382f04437cf5236%2Fyuki-story02-ej-beck-diptych.jpg\" class=\"img\" alt=\"A close up of EJ Beck's hands with red fingernail polish holding a gold, sparkly ribbon is on the left. A portrait of her as an adult is on the right. She has long, brown hair and is wearing a blazer.\" loading=\"lazy\"\/>\n        <\/picture>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"credit-caption\">\n<div class=\"caption-wrap\">\n<div class=\"caption\" aria-label=\"Image caption\">\n<p>\n                For many years, EJ Beck&#8217;s mother silently carried a golden ribbon that she received from the hospital to advocate for<strong> <\/strong>pediatric cancer awareness. &#8220;She passed the ribbon on to me,&#8221; says Beck, who has that ribbon hanging above her desk at home.<br \/>\n                <b class=\"credit\" aria-label=\"Image credit\"><\/p>\n<p>                    Jos\u00e9 A. Alvarado Jr. for NPR<\/p>\n<p>                <\/b><br \/>\n                <b class=\"hide-caption\"><b>hide caption<\/b><\/b>\n            <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>            <b class=\"toggle-caption\"><b>toggle caption<\/b><\/b>\n    <\/div>\n<p>    <span class=\"credit\" aria-label=\"Image credit\"><\/p>\n<p>        Jos\u00e9 A. Alvarado Jr. for NPR<\/p>\n<p>    <\/span>\n<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>When a child is diagnosed and undergoing treatment, doctors and parents tend to pour their energies \u2013 understandably \u2013 into managing the medical demands of pediatric cancer. But Julia Gomez, an education coordinator at <a href=\"https:\/\/nyulangone.org\/\">NYU Langone Health<\/a>, says for kids, the absence of the normalcy of school usually hits harder. &#8220;It&#8217;s quite devastating, to the whole child,&#8221; she says. &#8220;School is their whole world.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>With the increase in the population of survivors, there&#8217;s growing recognition that cancer care must also include planning for various aspects of life after treatment. And Gomez says more cancer centers, especially at research hospitals, are hiring education coordinators like her, who can help patients and their families stay connected to school during treatment and transition them back into their lives afterward.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"edTag\">Consistent support<\/h3>\n<p>Gomez works with some patients for up to five years, helping them and their families navigate the dizzying number of school or state bureaucracies to ensure students receive home tutoring or additional accommodations, for example. She matches them with tutors in the hospital or at home, and keeps teachers at school updated with treatment plans \u2013 tasks parents are often too overwhelmed to manage.<\/p>\n<p><!-- END ID=\"RESNX-S1-5221433-101\" CLASS=\"BUCKETWRAP INTERNALLINK INSETTWOCOLUMN INSET2COL \" --><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I can offer myself to take on the whole academic-education-school piece,&#8221; she says.<\/p>\n<p>Patient advocates argue specialized wraparound care like education coordinators should be an essential part of all pediatric and young adult cancer treatment plans. But they realistically are only accessible to a privileged minority of patients who live near the research hospitals or cancer centers that offer them.<\/p>\n<p>Aside from those outside services, family engagement and support can have huge bearing on how children fare through treatment and survivorship, says <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cityofhope.org\/saro-armenian\">Dr. Saro Armenian<\/a>, director of the <a href=\"https:\/\/urldefense.com\/v3\/__https:\/www.cityofhope.org\/research\/beckman-research-institute\/population-sciences\/outcomes-research\/population-science-survivorship__;!!Iwwt!RugxeNS2knUATrLtf5tFuZnq1Y7GTp9Tc8UvMLs9NJFTXEsII2y9G1OVE6u93wjAjHk77WBEytsa3w$\">Childhood, Adolescent and Young Adult Survivorship Program<\/a> at City of Hope Children&#8217;s Cancer Center in Los Angeles.<\/p>\n<aside id=\"ad-third-wrap\" class=\"ad-wrap third\" aria-label=\"advertisement\">\n<\/aside>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.apa.org\/topics\/children\/cancer-psychological-impact\">The more consistent, positive support a child feels from the adults and schools<\/a> around them, the better they will maintain their self-worth through the grueling times, Armenian says. &#8220;The social network plays a <em>huge<\/em> role, especially as a child, when you really don&#8217;t have a guidepost for how you should behave and act in that situation.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>But even when children can remain in class or reintegrate back into school, they often feel marked by disease.<\/p>\n<p>EJ Beck, for example, typically only missed morning classes through most of her treatments, but her highly restrictive, iodine-free diet meant she couldn&#8217;t eat school lunch, making her a conspicuous target for classmates. &#8220;I had this girl \u2014 I&#8217;ll never forget it,&#8221; Beck recalls, &#8220;she&#8217;d come up to me and say, &#8216;You&#8217;re really bullying everyone else because you&#8217;re so skinny and you&#8217;re dieting, so you&#8217;re saying that the rest of us are fat.'&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Beck swallowed her explanation to keep her cancer secret: &#8220;Once people know, they never look at you the same way.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Still, she felt lucky, because she didn&#8217;t lose her hair \u2014 that telltale, dreaded side effect \u2014 which meant keeping cancer secret was an option for her. &#8220;I had the privilege of somebody who\u2026cancer was never going to be as visible on me as it is on the majority of cancer patients.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"edTag\">An abrupt departure from normalcy<\/h3>\n<p>Brendan Harley&#8217;s exit from school was far more dramatic and noticeable. On the evening of May 5, 1995 \u2013 the night before his SAT exams \u2013 Harley landed in the hospital with acute leukemia at age 17.<\/p>\n<div id=\"resg-s1-37367\" class=\"bucketwrap image large\">\n<div class=\"imagewrap has-source-dimensions\" data-crop-type=\"\" style=\"&#10;        --source-width: 1710;&#10;        --source-height: 1196;&#10;    \">\n        <picture><source srcset=\"https:\/\/npr.brightspotcdn.com\/dims3\/default\/strip\/false\/crop\/1710x1196+0+0\/resize\/400\/quality\/85\/format\/webp\/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnpr-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F04%2F97%2Fe9dd2abb43f78a73117c9cadd35c%2Fbrendan-harley-post-transplant-1995.jpg 400w,&#10;https:\/\/npr.brightspotcdn.com\/dims3\/default\/strip\/false\/crop\/1710x1196+0+0\/resize\/600\/quality\/85\/format\/webp\/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnpr-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F04%2F97%2Fe9dd2abb43f78a73117c9cadd35c%2Fbrendan-harley-post-transplant-1995.jpg 600w,&#10;https:\/\/npr.brightspotcdn.com\/dims3\/default\/strip\/false\/crop\/1710x1196+0+0\/resize\/800\/quality\/85\/format\/webp\/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnpr-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F04%2F97%2Fe9dd2abb43f78a73117c9cadd35c%2Fbrendan-harley-post-transplant-1995.jpg 800w,&#10;https:\/\/npr.brightspotcdn.com\/dims3\/default\/strip\/false\/crop\/1710x1196+0+0\/resize\/900\/quality\/85\/format\/webp\/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnpr-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F04%2F97%2Fe9dd2abb43f78a73117c9cadd35c%2Fbrendan-harley-post-transplant-1995.jpg 900w,&#10;https:\/\/npr.brightspotcdn.com\/dims3\/default\/strip\/false\/crop\/1710x1196+0+0\/resize\/1200\/quality\/85\/format\/webp\/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnpr-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F04%2F97%2Fe9dd2abb43f78a73117c9cadd35c%2Fbrendan-harley-post-transplant-1995.jpg 1200w,&#10;https:\/\/npr.brightspotcdn.com\/dims3\/default\/strip\/false\/crop\/1710x1196+0+0\/resize\/1600\/quality\/85\/format\/webp\/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnpr-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F04%2F97%2Fe9dd2abb43f78a73117c9cadd35c%2Fbrendan-harley-post-transplant-1995.jpg 1600w,&#10;https:\/\/npr.brightspotcdn.com\/dims3\/default\/strip\/false\/crop\/1710x1196+0+0\/resize\/1800\/quality\/85\/format\/webp\/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnpr-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F04%2F97%2Fe9dd2abb43f78a73117c9cadd35c%2Fbrendan-harley-post-transplant-1995.jpg 1800w\" data-template=\"https:\/\/npr.brightspotcdn.com\/dims3\/default\/strip\/false\/crop\/1710x1196+0+0\/resize\/{width}\/quality\/{quality}\/format\/{format}\/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnpr-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F04%2F97%2Fe9dd2abb43f78a73117c9cadd35c%2Fbrendan-harley-post-transplant-1995.jpg\" sizes=\"(min-width: 1300px) 763px, (min-width: 1025px) calc(100vw - 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496px), (min-width: 768px) calc(100vw - 171px), calc(100vw - 30px)\" class=\"img\" type=\"image\/jpeg\"\/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/npr.brightspotcdn.com\/dims3\/default\/strip\/false\/crop\/1710x1196+0+0\/resize\/1100\/quality\/50\/format\/jpeg\/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnpr-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F04%2F97%2Fe9dd2abb43f78a73117c9cadd35c%2Fbrendan-harley-post-transplant-1995.jpg\" data-template=\"https:\/\/npr.brightspotcdn.com\/dims3\/default\/strip\/false\/crop\/1710x1196+0+0\/resize\/{width}\/quality\/{quality}\/format\/{format}\/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnpr-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F04%2F97%2Fe9dd2abb43f78a73117c9cadd35c%2Fbrendan-harley-post-transplant-1995.jpg\" class=\"img\" alt=\"Brendan Harley home from the hospital in September 1995 after receiving a bone marrow transplant to treat his leukemia. \u201cI was effectively living in a bubble at home,\u201d Harley says.\" loading=\"lazy\"\/>\n        <\/picture>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"credit-caption\">\n<div class=\"caption-wrap\">\n<div class=\"caption\" aria-label=\"Image caption\">\n<p>\n                Brendan Harley home from the hospital in September 1995 after receiving a bone marrow transplant to treat his leukemia. &#8220;I was effectively living in a bubble at home,&#8221; Harley says.<br \/>\n                <b class=\"credit\" aria-label=\"Image credit\"><\/p>\n<p>                    Harley family<\/p>\n<p>                <\/b><br \/>\n                <b class=\"hide-caption\"><b>hide caption<\/b><\/b>\n            <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>            <b class=\"toggle-caption\"><b>toggle caption<\/b><\/b>\n    <\/div>\n<p>    <span class=\"credit\" aria-label=\"Image credit\"><\/p>\n<p>        Harley family<\/p>\n<p>    <\/span>\n<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;I had to call my date for the junior prom, which was the next weekend, and say, &#8216;Sorry, I&#8217;m not going to be there&#8217; \u2013 and I was then gone,&#8221; he says. He remained in the hospital, in treatment, or in isolation and away from school and friends, for a full year. Notably, this was in an era <em>before<\/em> cell phones and social media existed, so Harley&#8217;s isolation felt complete.<\/p>\n<aside id=\"ad-overflow-3-wrap\" class=\"ad-wrap overflow\" aria-label=\"advertisement\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>&#8220;I was effectively living in a bubble at home,&#8221; Harley says. His middle brother helped ferry homework to and from school. &#8220;I&#8217;d have a tutor that showed up once a week and we would set masks and gloves on different sides of the room and talk.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It helped Harley to keep pinning his thoughts to discrete school assignments and other tasks he could control. Bald and tired, Harley studied frantically from his hospital bed, clinging to schoolwork as a handhold on life.<\/p>\n<p>Often, things didn&#8217;t go to plan, as was the case with his chemistry finals: &#8220;I got out and went right to take my exams in June and I couldn&#8217;t remember any of the things I was studying because of all the chemotherapy.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div id=\"resg-s1-37371\" class=\"bucketwrap image large\">\n<div class=\"imagewrap has-source-dimensions\" data-crop-type=\"\" style=\"&#10;        --source-width: 2541;&#10;        --source-height: 1205;&#10;    \">\n        <picture><source srcset=\"https:\/\/npr.brightspotcdn.com\/dims3\/default\/strip\/false\/crop\/2541x1205+0+0\/resize\/400\/quality\/85\/format\/webp\/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnpr-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F0d%2F7e%2F4281f1434c408d4b588e50fc8888%2Fyuki-story02-brendan-diptych.jpg 400w,&#10;https:\/\/npr.brightspotcdn.com\/dims3\/default\/strip\/false\/crop\/2541x1205+0+0\/resize\/600\/quality\/85\/format\/webp\/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnpr-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F0d%2F7e%2F4281f1434c408d4b588e50fc8888%2Fyuki-story02-brendan-diptych.jpg 600w,&#10;https:\/\/npr.brightspotcdn.com\/dims3\/default\/strip\/false\/crop\/2541x1205+0+0\/resize\/800\/quality\/85\/format\/webp\/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnpr-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F0d%2F7e%2F4281f1434c408d4b588e50fc8888%2Fyuki-story02-brendan-diptych.jpg 800w,&#10;https:\/\/npr.brightspotcdn.com\/dims3\/default\/strip\/false\/crop\/2541x1205+0+0\/resize\/900\/quality\/85\/format\/webp\/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnpr-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F0d%2F7e%2F4281f1434c408d4b588e50fc8888%2Fyuki-story02-brendan-diptych.jpg 900w,&#10;https:\/\/npr.brightspotcdn.com\/dims3\/default\/strip\/false\/crop\/2541x1205+0+0\/resize\/1200\/quality\/85\/format\/webp\/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnpr-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F0d%2F7e%2F4281f1434c408d4b588e50fc8888%2Fyuki-story02-brendan-diptych.jpg 1200w,&#10;https:\/\/npr.brightspotcdn.com\/dims3\/default\/strip\/false\/crop\/2541x1205+0+0\/resize\/1600\/quality\/85\/format\/webp\/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnpr-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F0d%2F7e%2F4281f1434c408d4b588e50fc8888%2Fyuki-story02-brendan-diptych.jpg 1600w,&#10;https:\/\/npr.brightspotcdn.com\/dims3\/default\/strip\/false\/crop\/2541x1205+0+0\/resize\/1800\/quality\/85\/format\/webp\/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnpr-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F0d%2F7e%2F4281f1434c408d4b588e50fc8888%2Fyuki-story02-brendan-diptych.jpg 1800w\" data-template=\"https:\/\/npr.brightspotcdn.com\/dims3\/default\/strip\/false\/crop\/2541x1205+0+0\/resize\/{width}\/quality\/{quality}\/format\/{format}\/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnpr-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F0d%2F7e%2F4281f1434c408d4b588e50fc8888%2Fyuki-story02-brendan-diptych.jpg\" sizes=\"(min-width: 1300px) 763px, (min-width: 1025px) calc(100vw - 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496px), (min-width: 768px) calc(100vw - 171px), calc(100vw - 30px)\" class=\"img\" type=\"image\/jpeg\"\/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/npr.brightspotcdn.com\/dims3\/default\/strip\/false\/crop\/2541x1205+0+0\/resize\/1100\/quality\/50\/format\/jpeg\/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnpr-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F0d%2F7e%2F4281f1434c408d4b588e50fc8888%2Fyuki-story02-brendan-diptych.jpg\" data-template=\"https:\/\/npr.brightspotcdn.com\/dims3\/default\/strip\/false\/crop\/2541x1205+0+0\/resize\/{width}\/quality\/{quality}\/format\/{format}\/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnpr-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F0d%2F7e%2F4281f1434c408d4b588e50fc8888%2Fyuki-story02-brendan-diptych.jpg\" class=\"img\" alt=\"Brendan Harley at 17 is shown in a hospital gown and mask holding onto an IV pole in the hallway of a hospital. A smiling nurse in scrubs is hugging him. At right is a professional headshot of Harley as a healthy adult.\" loading=\"lazy\"\/>\n        <\/picture>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"credit-caption\">\n<div class=\"caption-wrap\">\n<div class=\"caption\" aria-label=\"Image caption\">\n<p>\n                On May 5, 1995, at age 17, Brendan Harley was diagnosed with leukemia. The following day, he started chemotherapy treatments and spent a month on the oncology floor recovering at Brigham and Women&#8217;s Hospital in Boston. Now, as a biochemical engineer at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, he&#8217;s developing better tumor models that improve targeted treatments<br \/>\n                <b class=\"credit\" aria-label=\"Image credit\"><\/p>\n<p>                    Harley family<\/p>\n<p>                <\/b><br \/>\n                <b class=\"hide-caption\"><b>hide caption<\/b><\/b>\n            <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>            <b class=\"toggle-caption\"><b>toggle caption<\/b><\/b>\n    <\/div>\n<p>    <span class=\"credit\" aria-label=\"Image credit\"><\/p>\n<p>        Harley family<\/p>\n<p>    <\/span>\n<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>But, says Harley, returning home after feeling so vulnerable made him more determined to live, fully. Driving home from the hospital with the trees having reached full bloom in his absence, he appreciated the vibrancy of color with fresh eyes \u2013 and saw his own life in the same light. &#8220;It was like I saw it for the first time; I&#8217;ve made it back,&#8221; he says. &#8220;To this day, I can&#8217;t forget.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"edTag\">Vocations forged by experience<\/h3>\n<p>Three decades later, Harley&#8217;s cancer-free and a father of two. He now fights cancer on a different front. As a biochemical engineer at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, he&#8217;s developing better tumor models that help improve targeted treatments to both kill cancer and improve the quality of life afterward. Harley says the cause of his own leukemia may be the earlier radiation and chemotherapy treatments he received at age 1, when he was diagnosed with a neuroblastoma. &#8220;How can I make it so that the next generation goes through something different?&#8221; he says of his career in cancer research.<\/p>\n<p>Personalizing treatments can help avoid some of the harsher alternatives. &#8220;This idea of taking cells from a patient and turning them into a cure\u2026that&#8217;s something that is incredibly motivating,&#8221; he says.<\/p>\n<aside id=\"ad-overflow-4-wrap\" class=\"ad-wrap overflow\" aria-label=\"advertisement\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>Meanwhile, EJ Beck is on her own revenge tour against cancer. This fall, she started medical school at NYU Langone, the very hospital where she&#8217;d received treatment as a 10 year old. 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