Leukemia Has Won
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Leukemia Has Won
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#2Is there a chance of a liver transplant?
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#3So sad. But good to see you’ll be home and comfortable with your loved ones than at a bland hospital room. Godspeed.
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#4Is there a chance of a liver transplant?
The fact that he mentions GvHD would indicate that not to be an option, unfortunately. IANAD.
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#5Is there a chance of a liver transplant?
I'm not an expert here, but I doubt that he would qualify for a transplant given the heavy toll that the future leukemia treatment would put on the transplanted liver. It's sad, but sometimes there really aren't any more options.
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#6Whenever I’m studying a given topic, I like to buy maybe 6 or 7 books on it to skim-read from someplace where that’s afforable like HPB or Thriftbooks. Gives you a good overview of field and also each of the books fills in the holes of the other books.
Recently did this on the topic of “cancer”. All recent books published in the last 15 years by Big 5 Publishers.
Every single book had intense criticism for the NIH. It seems they do a lot of good, but their singular focus on only funding “hypothesis based research” has driven and then kept extremely promising ideas on the sidelines for 25 years.
Very sad to read at times, and made me really appreciate how scientific progress comes in amazing bursts that are short lived but that everyone depends on for decades to come.
EDIT: Kind of astonished by the downvotes. This book goes into more detail: https://www.amazon.com/dp/0374135606/
Also something else I forgot to add is how the death rate from cancer really hasn’t budged in 20 years by being generously massaged via something known as “average death rate”. Adjustments are made to have the US population conform to a model, against which the amount of deaths per year are calculated. While intended to smooth variance YoY, this model helps to a great extent the system currently operating.
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#7Is there a chance of a liver transplant?
Unlikely, as his cancer diagnosis puts him below other patients with an higher chance of survival, and the chemo will likely be too much for a patient recovering from a transplant.
Lab-grown organs can't come soon enough :(
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#8Is there a chance of a liver transplant?
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#9Whenever I’m studying a given topic, I like to buy maybe 6 or 7 books on it to skim-read from someplace where that’s afforable like HPB or Thriftbooks. Gives you a good overview of field and also each of the books fills in the holes of the other books. Recently did this on the topic of “cancer”. All recent books published in the last 15 years by Big 5 Publishers. Every single book had intense criticism for the NIH. I…
>their singular focus on only funding “hypothesis based research”
What is the alternative to "hypothesis-based research?"
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#10Godspeed. Thank you for sharing your stories.
For anyone reading here, one way to donate in general is The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society: https://www.lls.org/
LLS funds blood cancer research, education and patient services. You may know of LLS because of its annual fundraiser event known as “Light the Night” and its fitness initiatives “Team in Training“.