Jasmine. 28. Mum of 2. Survivor.
There are 2 different types of treatment for APML, there’s the AIDA protocol and the arsenic trioxide protocol. I followed the AIDA protocol and it consisted of 4 rounds of chemotherapy treatment. The treatment protocol you follow depends on your risk level when you’re first admitted to hospital. I was high risk due to my …
When I was discharged from hospital on 6th March, my doctors told me that there was no evidence of any leukaemia cells being left in my blood. This was amazing news and indicated that the chemotherapy I received whilst in hospital had worked. So they performed another bone marrow biopsy test. This was because the …
When I was first told I had Leukaemia, the doctors found it through a blood test, called a complete blood count. Leukaemia shows up on a complete blood count with massive abnormalities, my hemoglobin level was through the floor, my platelet count was just 6 when it should be between 150 and 450 and my …
My diagnosis was Acute Promyelocytic Leukaemia. My consultants were happy with this diagnosis as it has a high remission rate, with 80% survival rate and patients usually achieve remission from their first round of treatment. The majority of fatalities for APML are from the Leukaemia being caught too late. APML is a subtytpe of Acute …
