Wednesday, December 1, 2010

A complicated case

Spoke at length with Dr Will this morning which gave me the opportunity to revisit a conversation we had last friday regarding my diagnosis.

At my first meeting with Dr Will, it was thought that I was simply a Diffuse Large B Cell Lymphoma (DLBCL) that hadn't gone into remission, however it is now thought my cancer is more complicated than that and one that is in a 'grey zone' between DLBCL and Burkitt's lymphoma, that has genetics markers t(14;18), and could have transformed from follicular lymphoma. Nothing is for certain, but this is his thoughts after reviewing the data.

What that means is tougher to treat and tougher to get to remission.

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