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Welcome to the group.
Rob
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Sent: Saturday, November 26, 2005 6:57
PM
Subject: [CML] Hi, I'm new and want to
introduce myself
My name is Megan, I am 23 and live in Australia. My
mother-in-law (age 55) has just been
diagnosed with CML.
She also
has CIDP (an autoimmune disease) which required regular blood tests to monitor
complicatons from it's treatment (such as liver and kidney degradation and
infections from
immunosuppression). As a result we were able to watch her
white blood cell count climb
over the last 2 months to 49, at an
exponential rate, her platelets are also around 800
count.
Tests
have shown that the Philadelphia chromosome is present in 100% of
cells.
As soon as the forms have been processed she will commence
treatment with Glivec
(gleevec).
I am hoping that this group will
provide me with a better idea of what to expect as this
disease takes it's
course.
Her hematologist is reluctant to talk about what can go wrong,
untill it happens (doesn't
want to scare us?) and has said that this pill
will make her go into remission and hopefully
she will never enter the
accellerated phase of this disease.
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