The winner of Survivor: Africa, Ethan Zohn received great news from his doctor's in Manhattan on Tuesday. After over a year of struggling and fighting Hodgkin's Disease, that he was diagnosed with since last April, and PET Scan that was taken revealed that as of now there are no cancer cells in his body. Hodgkin's disease which is now called Hodgkin's Lymphoma is a type of cancer originated from one's white blood cells, called lymphocytes, and then spreading to other groups of the lympnodes. After this last round of radiation treatments, Zohn is finally free of all the cancer cells his is diagnosis last April, however his battle is far from over. His cancer has proven to be very likely to come back, after a few weeks of chemotherapy in the summer, Zohn's cancer came back. Now, he plans to go on with stem cell transplant, hoping that this will finally put an end to his battle. He plans to begin the operation within the next two weeks.
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