ESPN sports reporter Edward Aschoff died because of undetected stage 4 non-Hodgkin's lymphoma— cancer detection methods need to change.
PUBLISHED January 24, 2020
A native New Yorker, Shira Kallus Zwebner is a communications consultant and writer living with her husband and three children in Jerusalem, Israel. Diagnosed in 2017 with diffuse large B-cell lymphoma, she's fighting her cancer battle and blogging about the journey at hipstermomblog.com
It was news that made you shake your head in disbelief.Young ESPN reporter loses his life on his birthday, which happened to also be Christmas Eve, because of both pneumonia and hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis (HLH). According to his Instagram, he had been fighting the virus since the beginning of December and was gone 25 days later.
The media reported his passing in disbelief. How could a healthy, young man die of pneumonia and HLH? It was hard to comprehend. The news crossed my feed around the holidays, and I gave it a sad glancing. Young people dying is tragic. It wasn't until weeks later that the truth behind his sudden passing shook me to the core.
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