Gartocharn replied to the topic Peter has relapsed / info needed on Velcade in the forum General 12 years, 1 month ago
My son who lives is Abu Dhabi had a very positive effect with Velcade but recently was at the Royal Marsden for a stem cell harvest but was not sucessfull after 6 days of growth hormone so has gopt to fly back to Abu Dhabi because of this and the next available slot on the machines will be either March or April
Gartocharn replied to the topic In Out, In Out, Shake It All About in the forum General 12 years, 1 month ago
My daughter has just recently been dianosed with myeloma and seems to have temperature spikes a lot
Gartocharn replied to the topic Recently diagnosed in the forum Newcomers 12 years, 3 months ago
Hi Mike my son was dianesed last September sounds like you pain in back and on the right the X ray showed one of the ribs had gone and then they told us he lives in Abu Dhabi and has 3 children he hopes to have his stem cell reap in late January but he has to come back to the UK they do not do it there I will keep in touch and let you know how he…[Read more]
Gartocharn replied to the topic Blood reap in the forum Newcomers 12 years, 3 months ago
Thank you Ellen for your reply have you yourself received this treatment it was my daughter in law who said some paitents have refuesed this treatment as you can imagine my son Lives in Abu Dhabi so I cannot pop around the corner to see him I speak to him on Skype but I think he keeps a lot from me so I will not get upset he is 46 and was…[Read more]
Gartocharn replied to the topic Blood reap in the forum Newcomers 12 years, 3 months ago
Hi my son has multiple myeloma and is coming to the UK and Blood reap i believe is when they take the blood from your arm and then you received high dose of kimo and they clean the blood and put it back into your veins and then hopefully you produce goodplatelets again not the cancer ones
Gartocharn started the topic Blood reap. in the forum Newcomers 12 years, 3 months ago
My son was dianosed last September but he lives in Abu Dhabi but is hopeing to come to the UK for his blood reap and I was talking to his wife on skype tonight and she said there are some people who refuse this treatment, is there anybody on the discussion forum who has refused it and can you tell me why.