Hello
All,
Just thought I would
chime in on this. While I thoroughly agree with what has been written on
the subject - CML is not in and of itself a hereditary disease, I thought
you would be interested in knowing that I know at least three (3) fellow CMLers
who all lost their fathers to CML. That being said, about a year and half
ago I posted a message on Rob's list and subsequently uploaded a file, of a
study that was done by Dr. Jeffrey Lipton of The Princess Margaret Hospital in
Toronto. He has one of the largest CML patient bases in Canada, and he was
interested in retrospectively examining the occurrence of CML and other cancers
in families. If I remember correctly, and I would have to look this up to
verify it, he did seem to see a link between the incidence of colon cancer and
CML in family lines. I am not sure that this has been studied any
further. The study was brought to my attention by one of the fellow CMLers
who father died of CML (in the early 70's) and who is also a retired
cytogenticist (which is quite interesting as she spent a great deal of time
diagnosing CML in the lab, and then later was dxed with
it).
When I was at ASH,
we attended a session on the corporate Friday that looked and environmental
issues that may be involved in some forms of Leukemia and
Lymphoma. The use of Pesticides has been linked with childhood
Leukemias (typically AML and ALL) and some forms of lymphoma as well as exposure
to radiation and benzene. I think I will dig out my notes from this
session and post it for you, it was quite interesting.
It does sound though
like the folks who write the script for ER (I didn't see the episode in question
- been ploughing through a pile of books I received as presents),
really goofed. I'll be looking forward to what Jennifer G. tells us from
the site she mentioned.
Cheers to
all,
Cheryl-Anne
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