This is how my 2.5 year old son with cancer, his older brother and I survived leukemia treatment and managed to reenter the real world over four long years. Just barely.

Childhood cancer occurs regularly, randomly and spares no ethnic group, socioeconomic class or geographical region. One in every 330 Americans develops cancer, during childhood or adolescence, before the age of 20. The cause of most childhood cancers is unknown and at present, childhood cancer can not be prevented.

Follow the road.

One of the first things you get in treatment is the ever present RoadMap. With our hospital, since it was a teaching hospital, they essentially did a coinflip to see what path Skeeter’s treatment would take because they have three different medical trials running at one time. We didn’t have a choice in the path

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January 22nd, 2010 | Tags: , , , , , | Category: During treatment, Leukemia Encyclopedia | Leave a comment

Intro to Leukemia

As we are all mostly familiar with, cancer is abnormal cell growth. There are hundreds of kinds of cancer and generally, kids get different kinds than adults. Unfortunately, cancers that happen to kids tend to occur in developing cells like the bone marrow, blood, kidneys and tissues forming the nervous system, whereas adult cancers happen

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January 19th, 2010 | Tags: , , , , , , | Category: During treatment, Leukemia Encyclopedia | Leave a comment