After surviving prison and cancer, Abby Lee Miller, the somewhat controversial choreographer of the TV show “Dance Moms,” says she’ll survive her “awful” hotel-bound coronavirus quarantine: “They’re telling me I have to move out tomorrow,” she explained in an interview with Hollywood Life, “I’m handicapped, so it’s a nightmare. I found an apartment, finally, but it’s brand-new; it’s not inspected … so I can’t move in.”
“I don’t know what I’m going to do,” Miller said. “it’s absolutely awful.”
Burkitt Lymphoma Diagnosis
Read MoreAsked what keeps her going, Miller replied, “There’s more work to do. There’s legs to straightened and feet to be pointed.”
Miller ran a Pittsburgh area dance studio before being cast on Lifetime's "Dance Moms", in 2012, Later convicted of bank fraud, she served just over a year in prison. Her cancer struggle began after her release, when she underwent back surgery. She shared her ordeal on Instagram (above).
"It was physically tough and emotionally draining," she said of her recovery. "Going through the surgery, recovering, going to therapy … trying to get my right foot to move again, to get my toes to wiggle, that was hard."
Non-Hodgin Lymphoma
"Non-Hodgkin lymphoma is not one disease, it's many diseases," according to Dr. Catherine Diefenbach, Director of Translational Hematology and Clinical Lymphoma at NYU Langone Health and the Perlmutter Cancer Center, who was not commenting specifically on Abby's case. "And there are over 68 kinds of lymphoma.
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For this reason, it's very important that if you have a diagnosis of lymphoma, you're treated by a lymphoma specialist. And, we hope for all of our lymphoma patients that the first therapy you receive, will be your last therapy. That is, that we can treat you and cure you with first-line therapy."
There are two main categories of lymphomas — aggressive or indolent lymphoma — and the category determines whether the cancer is curable or manageable, and whether treatment is necessary.
"The approach to these lymphomas is very different,” says Dr. Diefenbach. Aggressive lymphomas are treatable and potentially curable. Indolent lymphomas are managed and don't always require treatment, however they are not curable by conventional means of describing curability."
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