re: Anyone on here ever been diagnosed with leukemia?

Do you live in Louisiana?

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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Hornet Swarm

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Prayers for you my friend.

I have a family member whom the doctors suspect has some type of leukemia.
He is in his mid-20s and is strong as a horse.

He passed out while at work and fell on his back(he was just standing up).
Several of his vertebrae were broken.

This threw up some red-flags to the doctors as a strong healthy young man should not have sustained several broken vertebrae.

Fortunately he able to walk and but is now in pain.

They think he has some sort of spongy-bones.

IDK, he and his mother are super-stressed about this.

They have run a few test but there is nothing conclusive yet.

Prayers for you my friend. Praying for a good diagnosis.

Hornet: I misread your previous post. Did you say your hematologist did or did not mention the presence of blasts in the peripheral blood?

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windshieldman

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Biggest breakthroughs in past several years in oncology:

1. Immunotherapy: harnessing the body’s own immune system to recognize and eliminate cancer cells. A game changer for several cancers; less advantageous for others.

2. Cellular therapy: not the game changer we hoped it could be, but the science provides a wonderful platform to build upon. Can we genetically alter one’s own immune cells, propagate them, and deliver them back to the patient to attack cancer?

3. Supportive care: in the cases of many cancer subtypes, the chemotherapy used hasn’t changed in decades, but the medications administered with chemotherapy to counteract the side effects of chemo have helped to improve survival by enabling us to administer full doses and full courses of chemotherapy.

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Are you in oncology?

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I mean, he's got to be a hematologist/oncologist. Nobody else has that big of an interest in which mutated gene locus causes a particular type of AML.

Had hairy cell leukemia 10 years ago. Did 7 days of a 24 hour drip chemotherapy. Been clear for over 10 years now. It really puts everything into perspective. Good luck and God speed.

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Had hairy cell leukemia 10 years ago. Did 7 days of a 24 hour drip chemotherapy. Been clear for over 10 years now. It really puts everything into perspective. Good luck and God speed.

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Cladribine! Still the only malignancy successfully treated with a single course of chemotherapy — and with a 70-80% response rate! Amazing!

He mentioned blasts. Honestly, I'm not sure if he saw it in the CBC or was saying that would be concerning. It was a phone call visit. The bruising all developed this past week. I had 2 units of platelets transfused over the weekend. Its been a long week.

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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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Have your immunoglobulin levels checked (IGg IGa IGM)

I had a bout with low platelets (ITP) and went years not being diagnosed with an immune deficiency.
Same thing, was tested for everything, leukemia, HIV and they never could figure out the cause. I was finally diagnosed 7 years later with an immune deficiency after almost dying from pneumonia. Looking back, doctors determined my ITP was related to my immune deficiency.