This Is What Community Looks Like
On January 27th the residents of Mount Desert Island, Maine came out in full force to support one of their own. Allen Beaman, husband of Knowles broker Jane McCombs-Beaman, was recently diagnosed with Mantle Cell Lymphoma (MCL). This is a tough cancer; it is a rare form of Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma (NHL) and only about 5% of those people diagnosed with NHL have MCL. It mainy affects men over 60 (Allen is 55) and at this time there are roughly 15,000 people in the US with this type of cancer.