13
Jan

my dad has just died of this, and other people i have heard of have too. I just wordered if people do survive from this form of cancer?
Answer: My husband passed from this, we were told there is about a 2% surival rate. He was gone in 10 months after they found it. This […]

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13
Jan

my dad has just died of this, and other people i have heard of have too. I just wordered if people do survive from this form of cancer?
Answer: My fiance's mother died from this. I am so sorry. I understand that it is not a wonderful site to see. His mom had to go […]

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13
Jan

i just found out that my 21 year old cousin has leukemia….i was just wonderin if most people with leukemia make it through or not……
Answer: No, not always. I was diagnosed aml at the same age. I went through chemo treatment and remained in remission for about one year after I finsihed treatment.
I […]

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13
Jan

me and my girlfriend had a big debate about this
Answer: Not all chemotherapy regimes cause hair loss; some just cause hair thinning, and some don't cause hair loss at all.
Chemo that causes hair loss can cause hair loss anywhere on the body. Some people lose all their body hair, some lose just some of it, […]

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13
Jan

My niece had several x-rays from age 2 to 6 during treatment for a spine problem. In total, she probably had about 30 x-rays in those four years. When should she expect to develop leukemia, as I'm told pediatric x-rays definitely cause it.
Answer: You don't say how old the niece is now, but if she […]

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13
Jan

Yes, and many people to whom I've spoken about it say that their hair grew back darker, or more curly, thick, or more coarse.
Answer: Yes, after you're done with the chemo.
Sometimes it'll grow back completely different than it was before.
Answer: yes it does and is sometimes curly even if your hair was straight prior to […]

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13
Jan

As many die from lung cancer and never smoked.
Answer: It's neither. Ultimately you kill yourself knowing the dangerous effects of cigarettes and continue to smoke despite it!
Smoking doesn't give you cancer per say, it just increases your chances of getting it DRAMATICALLY. That's why they have all the “surgeon general” warnings on it. Because of […]

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