Anyone on here ever been diagnosed with leukemia?

I had a cousin who had it as a kid. I can't remember which form, though. He spent alot of time at St. Jude. He's in his early 50s now.

Hopefully it comes out you don’t have it, obviously. Am I wrong in thinking this is much better treated nowadays? Seems I’ve heard or maybe it’s childhood leukemia that survival rate has gone up drastically

ETA: From reading below replies sounds like there are many different forms of it

Ive got Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia. Going strong on 6 years since diagnosis.

Have to have regular bloodwork.

A close friend of mine has a little 6 year old boy that was diagnosed last year. The fear of him getting sick with this underlying condition is scary. This little guy is a champ in my book.

Kick it’s arse.

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three days we will find out if he's officially cancer free or not.

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Hate to hear that, hopefully positive results in 3 days. He a history buff also?

The fact that you’re likely posting this from home and not from an inpatient facility implies to me that blood analysis has revealed an elevated white blood cell count but without evidence of blasts, the prototypical cell of the acute leukemias. Therefore, if you do indeed have leukemia, you more likely have a chronic leukemia.

There are two main types of chronic leukemia: chronic myeloid leukemia (cml) and chronic lymphocytic leukemia (cll). Chronic myeloid leukemia is a very well understood disease whose therapy consists of oral chemotherapy given indefinitely as it is a very treatable disease but not considered to be curable. Chronic lymphocytic leukemia is a disease that is more common than cml, and it can often be monitored until there is an indication for therapy. That can actually be years after diagnosis.

The more likely explanation for your elevated white blood cell count is temporary inflammatory response that will self resolve.

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hopefully positive results in 3 days.

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I think in this case you want negative results Sorry couldnt resist. Good luck OP.

The problem that got me to talking to a hematologist today was low platelets, they got below 10. I developed huge bruises. White blood cell count was around normal though. He did mention evidence of blasts.

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The problem that got me to talking to a hematologist today was low platelets, they got below 10. I developed huge bruises. White blood cell count was around normal though. He did mention evidence of blasts.

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That would be a relatively unusual presentation of leukemia as the only abnormality of your CBC (complete blood count). The most likely cause of platelets less than ten is either pseudothrombocytopenia (an abnormality caused by the platelets clumping when collected in the collection tube) or, most likely, ITP (immune thrombocytopenic purpura), an autoimmune disease characterized by the body inappropriately recognizing platelets as foreign and destroying them.

Young brother, long time ago -60s-. Not much they could do back then.