Paige Brown-Strong
September 11th, 2007
I had chronic myeloid leukemia, which is an uncontrolled division of certain white blood cells. When I was diagnosed in 1999, I was told that the average survival rate was one to three years I was given about a year as my own prognosis. Now, here I am, eight years later, in effect cancer free. Back then I began what was then the only known treatment for this type of leukemia, which was a combination of interferon and chemotherapy. At first it seemed to be working, but as we progressed and got closer to that year mark, I became sicker and sicker and sicker. So I went on line to try to find out about other drugs. The type of leukemia I had was one of the rarer ones, so I did not have a lot of faith that there would be a lot of research committed to it. (more…)
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