When you’re only 23, the last thing you expect to hear a doctor say is that you have cancer. But that’s exactly what happened to me two years ago.

I was diagnosed with stage I primary mediastinal B-cell lymphoma, an aggressive type of non-Hodgkin lymphoma, in January 2021. I’d just graduated from nursing school nine months earlier. I hadn’t even had a chance to launch my career. Suddenly, I was worried I might never be able to....