Hello All, I am just curious, and please no hate mail, but I have to ask, why would you have these young children go on a drug therapy rather than have a bone marrow transplant? I ask this as a CML patient myself. I can say, pretty unequivically, that if my daughter was dxed instead of me (and I am so thankful that it was me and not her), I certainly would have urged a full investigation into a transplant. Failing a perfect sibling match, I think I would look into cord blood transplant. The success rate is very high for children for BMT's.
Ironically, my daughters final paper for her psychology degree was a research paper on children who have underwent BMT's. She reported on their overall survival/health issues and self esteem issues. The self esteem issues were very important in these children as is often the case when children have faced such serious health issues at such young ages. Additionally, in yet another "small world" syndrome, I actually worked with quite a few people who had underwent a BMT either in their late teens or early 20's. There has been quite a great deal of improvement in BMT's in general. I am so glad that the children mentioned here are doing so well. So sorry though that they have to have this disease and take these drugs. Fingers are crossed that a cure is found soon for them. Cheers, Cheryl-Anne --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ [CMLHope] A support group of http://cmlhope.com ------------------------------------------------- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "CMLHope" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/CMLHope -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
