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re: Anyone on here ever been diagnosed with leukemia?
Posted on 10/13/20 at 8:43 pm to Chucktown_Badger
Posted on 10/13/20 at 8:43 pm to Chucktown_Badger
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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.
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.
Posted on 10/13/20 at 8:57 pm to LSUTigerDoc
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LSUTigerDoc
Are you in oncology? If not, obviously you know a lot about cancer. Just curious on what you know of as the biggest breakthroughs in last maybe 2-3 years. I know there are so many different cancers, but maybe some that were a death sentence a few years ago but now have a successful recovery overall. I’m in the medical field but just a paramedic and don’t know much about cancer research but find it interesting
Had a friend of mine, non smoker that went 7 years with a stage 4 lung cancer, in his 30s. Was pretty remarkable
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