I was 71 years old when Guillermo Garcia-Manero, M.D., diagnosed me with aggressive, high-risk, acute myelogenous leukemia (AML) that morphed from myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS) in October 2018. I was in shock. I felt great, but my bloodwork at my annual physical showed otherwise.
I qualified for a Phase I clinical trial and standard of care treatment. After my first treatment in November, my blasts were reduced from 28% to 6%....
I was diagnosed with an extremely rare myeloproliferative disorder called Rosai-Dorfman disease in 2014. It’s not fatal, but it does cause...
Growing up in Italy, I found my happy place with science. Even when dealing with a challenging home life, science offered an escape. But I...
Carolyn Drone thought her days of coping with cancer were over. She’d finished leukemia treatment two years earlier and showed no signs of the disease.
“Finally, my world was returning to normal,” she says.
But “normal” ended when Carolyn’s husband, Jim, received his own cancer diagnosis.
“It seemed impossible that we had just gone down this path,” Carolyn says, “and now we were starting again.”
Carolyn’s hairy...
I’d never heard of myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS) before I was diagnosed with it in November 2019. So, I didn’t know it was a bone marrow...
Ever logged into MyChart to check on some lab test results, then just stared blankly at the screen once you saw them? You’re not alone. ...
In my almost 73 years on this planet, I’ve been in a war, been held as a political prisoner, and been diagnosed with myelodysplastic syndrome...
Many cancers grow when there’s a glitch in the DNA of our cells. Sometimes that error is passed down from a parent to their child, and sometimes...
Some cancer symptoms are fairly straightforward. With breast cancer, it’s often a lump. With skin cancer, it may be a mole that changes shape...
After completing a course of treatment, there are few words that sound better to a patient than “complete remission.” It’s an indication that...