laurenalex's Cancer Blog

November 28, 2007

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Hey everyone, I hope you are all having a good morning. This post is just to finish the introduction about myself. I’ll be quick. The day that I was diagnosed with leukemia I had 90,000 white blood cells and 96% of them were blasts (cancerous cells). I also had a very large (11 by 16 cm) mass in my chest. By Novemeber 9th, I was at my 29th day of induction therapy and I was told that I had 0% blasts in both my blood and my bone marrow! So I was in remission. I was overwhelmed, it was the best news I had ever heard in my entire life. A closer look at my bone marrow showed that I had less than 1% minimum residual disease (cancer cells) in my bone marrow. This was also great news. So two weeks ago I signed up for a study- I am being treated as a Pediatric patient at The Denver Children’s Hospital which has given me the option of enrolling in a pediatric T-Cell leukemia study- and I have now started treatment according to the study’s protocol.

Posted on November 28, 2007 at 9:03:55 AM by Lauren ( More Info, 2 comments)

Lauren that is such great news! I’m so excited for you! Remission is such a great Xmas gift! Have a super holidays! ...Grace

Posted on November 28, 2007 at 11:24:52 PM by sky

Hi Lauren,
My name is Jennifer and I’m an associate producer for the Montel Williams Show. I read your blog and am really inspired by your courage and would like to speak to you about sharing your story. Please contact me when you get a chance at j_stryker@montelshow.com. Thank you.

Jennifer

Posted on November 30, 2007 at 8:20:23 AM by jenstr29