re: Anyone on here ever been diagnosed with leukemia?

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That NFL crucial catch commercial has chuck pagano talking about his wife seeing the bruises and making him get checked. He had acute promyelotic leukemia, which I'm not really familiar with.

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A fascinating disease characterized by a genetic mutation in the white blood cells at the retinoic acid receptor gene locus. Although this is a variant of acute myeloid leukemia, this subset of aml actually has an amazingly good prognosis. Due to the driver mutation for this disease, it can actually be successfully treated with all-trans retenoic acid, a derivative of vitamin A. More interesting is the fact that arsenic (oral or intravenous) is not only very effective in the therapy of this disease but also FDA approved for use.