Adam’s last request was a fund for Hodgkin’s research.
We are his family. We started the fund in 2007, became a foundation in 2010, and have helped fund the research behind a treatment now in the national guidelines.
Adam Spector, 1981 to 2007
He knew there were not enough options for people whose Hodgkin’s would not respond.
Adam was diagnosed at twenty-two, a year out of Wharton. Over three years he went through four treatment regimens, two stem cell transplants, radiation, and three clinical trials, two of which he found himself. At the end, he was thinking about other patients.
Where your money goes
Every dollar funds Dr. Alison Moskowitz’s Hodgkin’s lymphoma research at Memorial Sloan Kettering.
Her team developed a treatment for patients whose Hodgkin’s has returned. It has been adopted into the national treatment guidelines, which means patients everywhere can be offered it. Her current trial asks whether those patients can avoid a stem cell transplant altogether.