After winning $1 million on the TV reality show Survivor Africa, she was diagnosed with Hodgkin lymphoma.
She underwent radiation therapy to, hopefully, kill off enough cancer cells to get her to an autologous stem cell transplant.
After her second transplant, she met with some of the researchers who had developed brentuximab vedotin, the drug she credits with helping save her life.
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