![]() I have many things that I want to say to the people across America who have stood by me and helped carry me through this prolonged challenge, and I will come to say them soon. I feel love and gratitude not just for my family, my friends, my constituents and my colleagues but for the many thousands of people-both Marylanders and those of you living much further away-who have reached out to me over the last five months with expressions of prayer, best wishes, concern, solidarity, sympathy and moral encouragement-not to mention beautiful gifts of bandanas, homemade scarves and sweaters, Capitol Police baseball caps, hospital scrubs, wool hats, chocolate chip cookies, mandel bread, pea soup, vegan matzoh ball soup, and gorgeous paintings, poems and letters that I will treasure forever. Having now finished chemotherapy and rung the bell with my nurses and doctors, having a midterm PET scan report showing “negative” for any discernible cancer cells, and having a preliminary diagnosis of being “in remission” from diffuse large B-cell lymphoma with a 90% prognosis of no relapse, I am overwhelmed with gratitude and love. ![]() ![]() WASHINGTON, DC – Congressman Jamie Raskin (MD-08) today sent the following open letter on the completion of his chemo-immunotherapy treatments at Med Star Georgetown University Hospital and the Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center for diffuse large B-cell Lymphoma.
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