Husband just got a call from his doctor at the Huntsman Cancer Institute. The hematologists are finally ready to make a diagnosis of Atypical Hairy Cell Leukemia. That missing protein threw them for a while, but it wasn't looking like the hairy cell leukemia variant. Atypical hairy cell leukemia is even more rare than the variant, but the cases so far have responded as positively to treatment as classic hairy cell leukemia. Husband asked the doctor a couple times how sure they were about this diagnosis, and she said, considering doctors and hospitals from all over the world send blood samples to the Huntsman Institute for examination by the hematologists, she's pretty happy to back their diagnosis.
Imagine our relief!
Chemo starts Monday morning.
4 comments:
Your family has been in our prayers.
Is you Hematologist Dr. Breyer?
((hugs))
Becky Robb
Hi, Becky. I have no idea who the hematologist(s) is/are. Not a clue. I'm just glad they got good grades in hematology school.
Good news!
Me too! Let me know if I can do anything for you! You are in our prayers!
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