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Living with Leukemia

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  • 03-04-2011 3:12pm
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    connewitz
    Registered Users Posts: 405 ✭✭


    Hello everybody!

    The father of my son`s girlfriend was diagnosed with Leukemia 4 weeks ago . It came completely out of the blue! He had so far 5 blood transfusions and was scheduled for Chemo next week. A sample of his bone marrow was to dry and useless for any count of blood cells.
    Now he got a phone call from his oncologist saying, that they can`t do the chemo because he has no bone marrow left. He will have to wait for 4-5 months until this is back to at least 10 percent. When he has reached this number, then they will do a bone marrow transplant.
    My question now: Has anyone experience with this? Will this help him and what are the survival chances?
    I don`t want to worry my son`s girlfriend, just want to be prepared for the things to come.
    Thanks to all of you who are willing to give me some answers.


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