Re: [CML] Confused

[Rob]

Not many of the CML experts such as Dr. Talpaz, Druker, etc. push for BMT's now since there are so many drug treatments available. Since you are younger a BMT may be something you might want to consider at some point but if you are doing well on Gleevec now what said about staying on Gleevec makes since.   I operate CMLHope.Com which runs the Yahoo and Google groups on CML.   Rob  ----- Original Message ----- From: livia klescova To: cml@yahoogroups.com ; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, June 20, 2005 10:49 PM Subject: [CML] Confused Hi everybody,   It hasn't been a good day today for me. I am very confused.  I went to my  oncologist who is always talking about BMT to be the best option for me. I am in a chronic stage of CML.  I am taking Gleevec 600 mg and I do not know if I am in remission or not... I was referred to the oncologist at Johns Hopkins University Hospital in Baltimore (do you have any experience with any particular doctor over there?) to talk abt BMT and the doctor said that I should stay on Gleevec as long as it works and even if it doesn't there are some new promising drugs which should substitute Gleevec in the future. He says that BMT is still going to be an option for me in the future but we hope I will never need it. My primary oncologist (who is not a specialist for CML) says that she is not so optimistic about Gleevec since many people have failed it, and I am young (26 yrs - ugh still can not believe I am so sick, so young) and BMT is the best to do withing the 1 year since I was diagnosed. Anyway, can somebody write me what do you thinkg about it?    I am sorry I am curious, but I would like to know who is Rob. Just to know who is providing such a good info for us. It is midnight and nobody to talk to.: ) It is early in the morning and my friends and parents in Slovakia are sleeping. I would be able to write and write, to substitute my lack of communication. Thanks for all the emails I received.  All of them are very helpful. Have a nice day. Livia dx 02/05 Gleevec 600 mg   New! Sign up for local CML support group meetings in your local community at http://cml.meetup.com Apply for Commercial Real Estate loans online and submit your deal to dozens of hungry lenders in just minutes. Loan programs for all types of business and commercial real estate. Apply anytime at http://realestatezoo.com CML (Chronic Myelogenous Leukemia Support List) --------------------------------- Part Of CMLHope.Com An International Community Of CML Patients For more information: http://cmlhope.com Post Message: cml@yahoogroups.com Subscribe:  [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe:  [EMAIL PROTECTED] Change To No Mail/Web: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Change To Digest: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Change To Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] List Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED]  CML Group Web Site http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CML Yahoo! Groups Links To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CML/   To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]   Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service.