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Light of hope: Connie Hanson, a patient at the Boston Medical Center Amyloid Treatment and Research Program, carried the Olympic torch for part of its journey through Rhode Island late last year. She spoke at a reception in her honor at the School of Medicine on January 16. Connie's husband, John, nominated her to be a torchbearer for the 2002 winter Olympics "because of her personal drive and will to live after she was diagnosed with amyloidosis." Amyloidosis is a rare plasma disorder in which protein accumulates and attacks one or more organs of the body. Hanson is in remission after an experimental stem transplant and high-dosage radiation at BMC. Hanson is pictured with "the people who saved my life": (left to right) Vaishali Sanchorawala, a MED assistant professor of medicine and BMC hemotologist, who worked on Hanson's bone marrow and stem cell transplants, Hanson, Kathy Finn, manager of clinical trials at MED's Cancer Center, and Martha Skinner, a MED professor in the Arthritis Center and director of BMC's amyloid program. Photo by Kalman Zabarsky

25 January 2002
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