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Then, a cancer diagnosis disrupted her vision of what young adulthood would look like.\r\n\r\nNow celebrating seven years in remission, Ghazal still remembers the moment she felt a node above her own collarbone while demonstrating a lymph node exam to an NP student who was shadowing her at work.\r\n<div class=\"pullquote\"><span style=\"font-size: 400%;\">\u201c<\/span>During adolescence and young adulthood, you don\u2019t expect such an external shock to your health and financial well-being.\u201d<\/div>\r\n\u201cImmediately, I thought back to my advanced health assessment class in my NP program, where we learned that supraclavicular nodes are pretty much always abnormal, and they always require a follow up,\u201d she says.\r\n\r\nTaking her own advice to follow up with her primary care provider, Ghazal learned that she had Stage 2 Hodgkin\u2019s lymphoma. As she underwent treatment, she wondered how cancer would impact her life going forward.\r\n\r\n\u201cDuring adolescence and young adulthood, you don\u2019t expect such an external shock to your health and financial well-being,\u201d Ghazal explains. \u201cHow does one recover when you are in this period where you\u2019re just trying to survive, you don\u2019t understand the healthcare system or your insurance, and you may not understand how much it\u2019s going to cost you?\u201d\r\n\r\nThe questions she had about her own treatment and survivorship soon turned into research questions, helping Ghazal find a new sense of purpose as a nurse scientist. Ghazal\u2014who had previously planned to study global nursing workforce issues as a PhD student\u2014changed her research focus, dedicating her career to improving fellow survivors\u2019 quality of life.\r\n<h3><strong>Amplifying AYA voices<\/strong><\/h3>\r\n[caption id=\"attachment_686152\" align=\"alignright\" width=\"473\"]<img class=\"wp-image-686152 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/newscenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/inline-GhazalNCI-1000w-473x630.jpg\" alt=\"Lauren Ghazal, Lisa Kitko, and Sally Norton smile and stand together in front of a giant banner that reads &quot;an NCI-designated cancer institute&quot; and features the University of Rochester logo.\" width=\"473\" height=\"630\" \/> <strong>THREE CHEERS:<\/strong> Ghazal, School of Nursing Dean Lisa Kitko, and Senior Associate Dean for Research Sally Norton celebrate Wilmot Cancer Institute\u2019s NCI designation. (Photo courtesy of Ghazal)[\/caption]\r\n\r\nAdolescent and young adult (AYA) survivors\u2014generally, those between ages 15 and 39\u2014are a population that have often gone overlooked in science and medicine, occupying an awkward space between pediatric and older adult cancer survivors. As a result, it can be easy for AYA survivors to feel invisible or out of place. Years before the field of AYA research rose to prominence in the 1990s and early 2000s, the age group lagged younger children and older adults in improved survival outcomes and representation in clinical trials.\r\n\r\n\u201cWe may be treated in pediatric cancer centers or in adult cancer centers, so when we go in for treatments, we\u2019re very old for the population or we\u2019re very, very young,\u201d Ghazal says.\r\n\r\nAs AYA visibility continues to grow, emerging scientific literature has also focused on this age group\u2019s financial hardships. The more studies Ghazal read as a doctoral student, the more she could envision herself utilizing her lived experience and expertise in nursing and economics to advance AYA research even further.\r\n\r\n\u201cThe biggest thing about my story is that I really leaned into when life happens, approaching it with all of the tools and skills that you\u2019ve built up to that point,\u201d she adds.\r\n\r\nNow an associate member of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.urmc.rochester.edu\/cancer-institute\">Wilmot Cancer Institute<\/a>\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.urmc.rochester.edu\/cancer-institute\/research\/research-programs\/cancer-prevention-control\">Cancer Prevention and Control research group<\/a>, Ghazal has played a pivotal role in expanding the University of Rochester\u2019s research in this area, leading and contributing to studies on cancer\u2019s financial and quality-of-life impacts for AYA survivors.\r\n\r\n\u201cI want to make cancer essentially suck less,\u201d she says with a laugh. \u201cI want to make lives better through research and implementing evidence-based and supportive care interventions. And I can do that here, in collaboration with the School of Nursing and with our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/newscenter\/wilmot-cancer-institute-national-cancer-institute-designation-643552\/\">newly NCI-designated cancer center<\/a> across the street, and with phenomenal mentors.\u201d\r\n<h3><strong>Bringing her research to URochester<\/strong><\/h3>\r\nGhazal first learned of the University after running into her friend and colleague, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=LWU5A5Td5XY\">Meghan Underhill<\/a>\u2014a fellow School of Nursing researcher and nurse practitioner at Wilmot\u2014at the Oncology Nursing Society\u2019s annual Capitol Hill Days. Underhill spoke highly of the school\u2019s welcoming atmosphere, its <a href=\"https:\/\/son.rochester.edu\/research\/index.html\">strong research community<\/a>, and the advantages of having Wilmot down the street. She encouraged Ghazal to apply for a junior faculty opening.\r\n\r\n[caption id=\"attachment_686132\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"2000\"]<img class=\"size-full wp-image-686132\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/newscenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/inline-adolescent-and-young-adult-survivors-of-cancer-ghazal-wilmotwarrior.jpg\" alt=\"Three women in biking gear smiling at the camera during Wilmot Warrior Weekend.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" \/> <strong>SHOW OF SUPPORT:<\/strong> School of Nursing researchers (l-to-r) Meghan Underhill, Ghazal, and Caitlin Dreisbach bike at Wilmot Warrior Weekend in September 2025. (Photo courtesy of Ghazal)[\/caption]\r\n\r\nAfter finishing a postdoctoral fellowship in cancer care delivery research at the University of Michigan, Ghazal joined the faculty in 2023. The decision to come to URochester helped her grow as both a researcher and person overall, and connected her with collaborators, close friends, and dedicated mentors who are invested in her success.\r\n\r\n\u201cIt\u2019s a very close-knit community that is doing impactful research to improve the lives of all cancer survivors and their families,\u201d she says. \u201cRochester is a hidden gem that has some incredibly powerful, really compassionate players.\u201d\r\n<h3><strong>A career shaped by curiosity<\/strong><\/h3>\r\nGhazal encourages students and early-career professionals to keep an open mind and stay curious.\r\n\r\n\u201cDon\u2019t be afraid to ask big questions that may scare you because you know that there\u2019s a lot of work at the other end to be able to answer them,\u201d she says. \u201cAnd find great mentors who continue to allow you to ask those big questions.\u201d\r\n\r\nShe also wants aspiring nurses to know that the lived experiences they bring to the profession are a strength. Ghazal, who earned her first bachelor\u2019s degree in economics and once thought of becoming a lawyer, entered nursing as a career change by pursuing a second degree through an accelerated program.\r\n\r\n\u201cThat uniqueness and individuality is what sets everyone apart, and that\u2019s what has shaped me and helped me thrive in this environment,\u201d she says.","background_color":"#ffffff","width":"width-medium"}]},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Lauren Ghazal: An advocate for young adult cancer survivors<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The nurse scientist has devoted her career to supporting fellow cancer survivors while expanding her research\u2019s impact.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" 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