Kathy Folk never expected to become a medical pioneer. But 13 years after her cancer diagnosis, Folk made history as Nebraska’s first outpatient CAR T-cell therapy patient.

Missy Moser was first diagnosed with non-Hodgkin lymphoma in 2005 while she was pregnant with her son, Landon.

Philanthropy has always been an integral part of Colby Zeuli’s life. So when Colby began planning her wedding, she didn’t think twice when she requested that guests donate to the University of Nebraska Medical Center Hematological Malignancies Fund. Colby’s mother, Stacie Greene, is still here today due to the care she received at Nebraska Medical Center 29 years ago when she was diagnosed with non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma.

University of Nebraska Medical Center researchers are studying an experimental treatment for patients with specific subtypes of B-cell non-Hodgkin lymphomas. Potential candidates include patients who have undergone prior standard therapies that are no longer working or who have had cancer continue to return.

Indolent lymphomas are easy to treat, but hard to cure.

Jim Gutschow was just 38 when he received the sobering news that he had stage 4 non-Hodgkin lymphoma.