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I can see how you can hijack the event if you're not careful. Is the event's purpose to raise money for cancer treatment, or cancer support services, or cancer awareness.
As long as your talk addresses the objective of the event and you tie your experience to it, then you should be OK as long as you don't make it about "you" or SAA. BMT's, chemotherapy effects, infections, transfusions, getting through the treatment and more are shared elements of both. If you can encourage the audience to donate blood or bone marrow, it will make a difference. And you can speak from the heart about this. Blood saves the live of those facing cancer and blood disorders.
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Marlene, wife to John DX w/SAA April 2002, Stable partial remission; Treated with High Dose Cytoxan, Johns Hopkins, June 2002. Final phlebotomy 11/2016. As of July 2021 HGB 12.0, WBC 4.70/ANC 3.85, Plts 110K.
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