How Cancer Saved My Life: A Patient’s Journey with Acute Myeloid Leukemia

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06/15/23

Meet Melissa Ruffino, teacher, sister, daughter, and survivor of Acute Myeloid Leukemia. When she was diagnosed at the age of 32, she immediately moved from Austin to Dallas to begin treatment at UT Southwestern's Bone Marrow Transplant Program. After two rounds of chemotherapy, she underwent a bone marrow transplant that has now given her more than one-thousand days of life. For information about becoming a donor, visit bethematch.org.