This is an open honest blog about what it s like living with a user friendly cancer taking pill chemotherapy daily possibly for life and everything that goes along side it.
Living with cml blog.
It develops slowly in the blood forming cells inside the marrow and eventually spreads through the blood.
Chronic myelogenous leukemia affects 20 000 people in the united states but about 4 500 are newly diagnosed each year.
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A fifteen year cancer survivor of a brain tumor and am now currently four years into.
Life with cml is a blog providing support to others in knowing they are not alone in their fight against chronic myeloid leukemia.
London england united kingdom about blog i was diagnosed with old man s cancer chronic myeloid leukaemia cml on the 19th january 2007 when i was 22.
They ve been around since 1949 so they have a wealth of experience.
But there are things you can do to deal with the challenges head on.
I was diagnosed with cml on march 3 2006 after having some blood work ordered by my ophthalmologist.
The current treatment goal for cml is to reach a major molecular response mmr within 18 months.
Wow that was 5 years ago so much has happened since then mainly good that it is.
It is the result of a genetic mutation that causes white blood cell production to increase out of control.
Well i guess the title should read 5 years living with leukaemia and knowing it.
Mmr is achieved when pcr reaches 0 1 1 1000 of 100 also called a 3 log reduction.
I started this blog to keep my friends and family informed about my progress with chronic myelogenous leukemia cml.
The life of a flower.
Living with cml if we could see the miracle of a single flower clearly our whole life would change.
Pcr measures how many of the tested white blood cells are leukemic.
Living with chronic myeloid leukemia chronic myeloid leukemia cml and its treatment can affect your life in many ways.
This anniversary had nearly passed me by until a little bell went off in the back of my head.
Chronic myeloid leukemia or cml is a type of cancer that begins in the bone marrow.
