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Yesterday, April 6, 2022, I had 2½ years of hair growth shorn. My last haircut had been before the annual ASH conference held in December 2019.
On March 22, 2018, I was an outpatient at the Seattle Cancer Care Alliance where I was transfused with my own T-cells that had been harvested a few weeks earlier, then genetically reengineered to attack my cancer, multiplied manyfold, then reinjected into my bloodstream to rest up, grow again,
Bill Ludwig, 75, of Upper Deerfield Township passed away on Sunday, January 31, 2021 at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania where he had been hospitalized since December 1, 2020. This is the same hospital where, 10 years earlier, his life and the whole world of cancer treatment
🎶 It was 2 short years ago today, my CAR-T cells really learnt to play, They have been going in and out of glands, no guarantee that they would expand But let me tell their story to you, the treatment that so new these years, Brian Koffman’s splendid CAR-T
I have not been able to eat grapefruit for more than a dozen years due to its annoying chemistry that interferes with the metabolism of multiple medications. It has been called the forbidden fruit due to its potent inhibition of cytochrome P450 3A4 (CYP3A4) that can lead to toxic
I stopped taking ibrutinib on February 20, 2020, a few months short of my 8-year anniversary. As I discussed in my last blog post, this was a difficult decision with conflicting advice. Would my CLL remain quiescent or would my lymphocyte count shoot up? Would my ITP (immune thrombocytopenic
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