'An old person's disease': How did stomach upset turn out to be a rare blood cancer?

September 22 is World CML Day. It reminds me that if I had been diagnosed 25 years earlier, I would probably be dead.

“Sometimes patients, because of the scarring, might have low red cell counts, [causing] anemia,” says Dr. Shireen Sirhan, hematologist and oncologist, Division of Hematology at the Jewish General Hospital in Montreal, where she co-founded Canada’s first specialized, dedicated MPN clinic. “Sometimes their white blood cells can be high or low.

Like Cameron, Eugene did not have any signs or symptoms until he was sent for blood work after experiencing chest pains. Carol Cameron had ET, one of a group of three progressive blood cancers called myeloproliferative neoplasms, or MPNs. SUPPLIEDPetruk says while there is no cure for MPNs, there are effective medications to help manage quality of life, including one that’s fully approved and awaiting the reimbursement process, and three more in the final stages of clinical trials. There are also more treatments available in the U.S., adds Sirhan, which Canada is working on getting access to.

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