It's hard to believe that I've now reached the 6-month point of my treatment for Chronic Myeloid Leukemia (CML) at Roswell Cancer Center in Buffalo. My family doctor here in Utica caught the abnormality during normal blood work back in May of last year. My white blood count was elevated and the disease was officially diagnosed by Dr. Samir Desai at the Utica Cancer Center a few weeks later.
There is a team of angels that volunteer their time to fly the sickest of patients to and from important medical appointments and life saving surgeries. They're based out of Western New York.
Scientists from Stanford Medicine glued two proteins together and as a result, they may very well have created a scenario where cancer cells self destruct.