The news was posted on the Spurs thread, but I felt it deserves its own.
I survived the same diagnosis, AML, by the grace of God and the kindness of a stranger who donated bone marrow in 2010. I am very surprised that he relapsed. The hardest part of a bone marrow/stem cell transplant is surviving the periods of time when you have little to no immune system and graft-versus-host-disease. The survival rate is less than 40%. If you make two years post transplant, then you are considered cured. I ran a 1/2 marathon on my two year anniversary, crazy considering the challenging road my family & I traveled.
New technology is on the way that trains our body's T-cells to attack the cancerous cells. For some reason the body puts the brakes on our immune system, MD Anderson (where I was treated) and others are doing studies today that are successfully lifting those breaks. The success of those studies is the major reason Pres. Obama said we will end cancer in his state of the union address. I pray for Craig to survive and inspire all of the leukemia patients suffering today, particularly those innocent children who've not yet lived a full life.
I survived the same diagnosis, AML, by the grace of God and the kindness of a stranger who donated bone marrow in 2010. I am very surprised that he relapsed. The hardest part of a bone marrow/stem cell transplant is surviving the periods of time when you have little to no immune system and graft-versus-host-disease. The survival rate is less than 40%. If you make two years post transplant, then you are considered cured. I ran a 1/2 marathon on my two year anniversary, crazy considering the challenging road my family & I traveled.
New technology is on the way that trains our body's T-cells to attack the cancerous cells. For some reason the body puts the brakes on our immune system, MD Anderson (where I was treated) and others are doing studies today that are successfully lifting those breaks. The success of those studies is the major reason Pres. Obama said we will end cancer in his state of the union address. I pray for Craig to survive and inspire all of the leukemia patients suffering today, particularly those innocent children who've not yet lived a full life.