Cancer Support

sometimes I/we assume that all on the cancer forum understand certain terminology, but each disease comes with their own challenges and strange ways unfamiliar to other patients. The Hickman port is a central line from which they will not only administer chemo, but can also do frequent blood tests and administer fluids/drugs at the same time, there will be three lines they can access from this port for various things.

The first transplant worked for four years. At the annual check up the leukemia had returned and my husband was 60% donor, after this last chemo he was 100% donor, but they do not expect that to last. So he is looking at a second bone marrow transplant (in pure terms it is a second stem cell transplant, which has more to do with how the donor cells are extracted) and has a lower chance of a cure, but hopefully a longer remission. It is a chance at something ... maybe just buying more time.

We never know where we might fall on the statistics that we read about, will we fall into the best or the lowest point of the stats???

In the past four years I know they have made strides to combat certain blood cancers, but I am only living through this as a caregiver and not as a patient.

Thanks again Tab