Scott W Harden - Status
Latest
- Issue: Scott is being treated for cancer (Peripheral T-Cell Lymphoma)
- Status: Scott is currently undergoing intensive chemotherapy which results in reduced energy levels and low immune function requiring him to quarantine at home. Over the past few weeks he has felt well enough to use the computer daily for work and some personal projects.
- Updated: 2026-04-18
Timeline
- 2026 Jun: Allogenic bone marrow transplant (donor identified, not yet started)
- 2026 May: PET CT indicates current treatment is working well!
- 2026 Apr: Chemotherapy: ifosfamide, carboplatin, etoposide (active)
- 2026 Feb: Chemotherapy: duvelisib and romidepsin (aborted due to HLH reactions)
- 2025 Dec: Antibody therapy: anti-CD94 (stopped after partial response)
- 2025 Nov: Relapse identified via CT and confirmed with surgery
- 2019: Treatments considered successful. Stable health for 6 years.
- 2019: Autologous bone marrow transplant
- 2019: Radiation therapy
- 2018: Chemotherapy (CHOP)
- 2018: Indolent disease became aggressive
- 2012: Diagnosed with Peripheral T-Cell Lymphoma
Impact
- Scott is an avid open source contributor and maintainer of several projects in the field of data visualization and signal analysis. Scott reduced open-source work in 2025 and stopped it completely in early 2026 to focus entirely on health. Scott is excited to return as an active maintainer after his health recovers.
How Can I Help?
- Donate blood: During this process I am unable to make enough blood and platelets to support myself, and I rely on transfusions from blood donors to keep me alive. I owe my life to anonymous blood donors, and if you donate blood and encourage others to do the same, it goes a long way toward helping people like me!
- Join the bone marrow registry: A healthy person with the right genetic match can donate some of their bone marrow to someone with blood cancer, allowing them to make healthy blood on their own, curing their disease! It can be hard to find a donor with a good genetic match, so the more people join the National Marrow Donor Program, the more people can be cured! Join the National Marrow Donor Program and you could save the life of someone like me!
Miscellaneous
- Personal website: https://swharden.com
- GitHub: https://github.com/swharden
- Contact: You are welcome to reach out to me directly, but as my energy drops it becomes harder to respond. Those around me will keep this page up to date if I become unable to update it myself.
- 2019 medical blog: https://swharden.com/med/
I have a surprisingly good time programming in the hospital! Although I have a lot of long visits, my symptoms are well controlled, people bring me food and coffee all day long, my laptop is easy to carry around, and I get a lot of great computer time in. I truly look forward to my long hospital stays! The doctors and nurses often mistake me for a video gamer because I always have my laptop out and am focusing on the screen with extreme intensity.
2025-12-19, Moffitt Cancer Center, Clinical Research Unit, Tampa, Florida