Cancer survivor Jenny Ahlstrom is well-known locally for her work providing information and resources to cancer patients, allowing them to take charge of their treatments and diagnoses, and now she’s reaching a national audience with an appearance Wednesday morning on the “Today” show.

Raising six children can be battle enough for any mother, but for Ahlstrom, of Sandy, her biggest battle was yet to come in the form of myeloma.

Just two years after her last child was born, Ahlstrom was visiting the United States after a recent move to Mexico when she went to visit a doctor in regard to recurring issues she’d been having.

What she discovered was extensive bone damage as a result of multiple myeloma, a complex plasma cell cancer that begins in the bone marrow.

There is no cure for myeloma, but Ahlstrom took her diagnosis and experience and sought ways to help others on the same path. The ultimate result was the CrowdCare foundation followed by Myeloma Crowd, ALS Crowd and HealthTree – all building together to create a nonprofit database where patients can share their experiences and health information with the hope of helping others.

The platforms help to aggregate patient data to guide users through their own treatments, assist in disease research and speed up the quest for a cure.

Ahlstrom’s appearance on the “Today” show, set for 7 a.m. Wednesday, will include a discussion of her own health journey to details on work she’s done toward advancing treatment and increasing awareness for others.

“The goal is to have patients involved in accelerating their own cure,” Ahlstrom said in a 2016 interview with the Daily Herald on Myeloma Crowd, part of the Lehi-based Crowdcare Foundation. “Most of the time you sit back and a doctor says you can have this treatment or this treatment.”

As to the foundation, she said, “We are sharing information, we are funding research, we are really moving the bar for our disease.”