Leukemia 101

This blog is for and dedicated to my mom Robin. Robin was diagnosed with Accute Myelogenous Leukemia on March 16th 2010. After some tests to find out the cause of her fatigue, it was revealed that she had a low hemoglobin level. upon further tests and a bone marrow biopsy doctors determined that she has Leukemia. So with that being said this is her story.


Monday, March 29, 2010

mutation is good

Some interesting news today...Mom's doctor did a chromosome check on her and they were looking at which ones had mutated and which hadn't. The "NPM1" had mutated and was allowing the chemo to work...the "FLT3" had not mutated and that this is the best possible situation for fighting the cancer. There is a 60% chance that there will NOT be a need for a bone marrow transplant. Dr. Ash was really optomistic and quite elated at this development. So in a nutshell things are still looking really good.

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