Hi Greetings They checked my blood. ( Jun. 28 ) I was told " I'm not Leukemia. " I was prescribed " Fero - Gradumet 105mg " - ferrous sulfate ( Fe ) from 13th...
Hello everyone--- On my annual follow-up last week I was told I have a small amount of CLL cells present in my flow cytometry test. I completed FCR-3 in April...
Greetings I'm trying to send blood count data again by an attachment. I hope this works. Sincerely, Masako masakomichaelsjgr <masakomichaelsjgr@...>...
well, that's very interesting David. Tom, my husband, goes to MDAnderson and he finished FCR-3 in November of 2004 and hit a partial remission with MRD. He...
Thanks for the quick answer, Good question, what is the difference btwn your husband and myself? Perhaps his cytometries are rising slower than mine. Does he...
Hey David- He goes for his 3 month check in August. New trials have been mentioned to him. Keating said he wanted to do something not quite as toxic as FCR...
Hi David, Here's a report on Lenalidomide with Rituxan (which you might also ask about specifically). Also an abstract on L as monotherapy. All the best, cc:...
A complete remission is not probably a 'complete remission'. By this I mean the CLL is almost certainly not completely gone. It's an unfortunate fact that at...
[Did you know that those who take the trouble to contact their Congress member is deemed an 'influentials'? Many of us, hopefully, e-mail our Congress members....
Scott, Thanks for the response and the web page reference. You are so correct about remission not lasting! I had tuned out the fact that remission wouldn't...
Fat kills cancer Turning stem cells taken from fat tissue into personalized, cancer- targeted therapeutics Researchers in Slovakia have been able to derive...
American Association for Cancer Research From clinical cancer research: rethinking therapeutic cancer vaccine trials Ongoing therapeutic cancer vaccine trials...
A New Focus on Easing the Pain Palliative Care Helps The Very Ill. It May Also Keep Costs Down. By Joanne Kenen Special to The Washington Post Tuesday, July 3,...
Blood, 15 July 2007, Vol. 110, No. 2, pp. 735-742. Prepublished online as a Blood First Edition Paper on April 26, 2007; DOI 10.1182/blood-2006-12-0609 ...
[Damage to ATM is not uncommon in CLL] How a Genetic Roll of the Dice Paves the Way for Lymphatic Cancers For most cells, keeping DNA in optimal condition is a...
GTx Initiates Phase IIb Ostarine Clinical Trial For Cancer Cachexia GTx, (Nachrichten) Inc. (Nasdaq: GTXI), announced today that it has initiated the Phase IIb...
Within a 2003 commentary by Chaya Venkat (URL link below) was the statement: "There is a study that links psoriasis with CLL: people with psoriasis are six...
Leukemia. 2007 Jun 28; [Epub ahead of print] Allogeneic stem cell transplantation following reduced-intensity conditioning can induce durable clinical and...
... Here's the report on a large study (2005-2006) that looked for correlation between all auto-immune disorders (including psoriasis) and CLL. They even...
Cancer Biother Radiopharm. 2007 Apr;22(2):185-93. Community-Based Phase II Trial of Pentostatin, Cyclophosphamide, and Rituximab (PCR) Biochemotherapy in...
I never had Psoriasis until I developed CLL. None of my family ever had it either. I have learned not to take any one research too serious. And be even more...
Human Molecular Genetics 2007 16(R1):R96-R105; doi:10.1093/hmg/ddm073 Genome-epigenome interactions in cancer Romulo M. Brena1 and Joseph F. Costello2,* 1...
Clin Adv Hematol Oncol. 2007 Apr;5(4):257-61. Diagnosis and management of autoimmune complications of chronic lymphocytic leukemia/ small lymphocytic lymphoma....
Biomedical engineers use electric pulses to destroy cancer cells A team of biomedical engineers at Virginia Tech and the University of California at Berkeley...
FDA Delay In Cancer Therapy Is Attacked By Rob Stein Washington Post Staff Writer Friday, July 6, 2007; A01 Oncologists do not usually need bodyguards when...
Efficacy and Safety of Every-2-Week Darbepoetin Alfa in Patients with Anemia of Cancer: A Controlled, Randomized, Open-Label Phase II Trial. V Charu, CP...
Dr. Byrd in his telephone conference said there are some studies to find an occupational cause for CLL. Do you know who is doing the studies and how one can...