CNN: This med student was given last rites before finding a treatment that saved his life. His method could help millions
Doctors spend their lives healing other people, but what happens when the only doctor that can save you is you? Doctor David Fajgenbaum found himself in this very situation, and is now specializing is saving his own life. Always the picture of health, Fajgenbaum is battling Castleman’s disease, a rare autoimmune disorder involving an overgrowth of cells in the body’s lymph nodes. The 32-year-old doctor at the University of Pennsylvania summarizes Castleman’s as being almost like a mix between an autoimmune disease and a cancer. It is an extremely rare disease. He experienced three flare-ups over the first six...
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