Sunday, February 11, 2018

Post #75 - Joseph from Turkey

Back in July of 2017 Joseph from Turkey found us via this blog.  He has been communicating with Bill via e-mail since.  Joseph was diagnosed with T-PLL while living in Turkey.  The treatment there is more traditional for Leukemia, they would not use Campath until the more traditional treatment failed.  Joseph completed the traditional treatment with no success and was then given Campath.  His WBC is 1.81 after a month or so on Campath.  As we get information from Joseph we will update the blog with his journey.

On January 19, Joseph sent us a link to an article about a new treatment for T-PLL.  Please use the link below to view the article.  https://www.news-medical.net/news/20171024/New-drug-offers-hope-for-treatment-of-aggressive-T-PLL-leukemia.aspx

We are happy to see that T-PLL is getting some attention with the drug manufacturers.