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Good news!
In November, 2009, as part of the requirements of a Phase I/II clinical trial in which Tom had been enrolled, he had to undergo a biopsy of the bone marrow in his hip bone. It is the usual way for doctors to measure the degree of presence of cancer in a patient’s bone marrow.
The result of that bone marrow test was 60% - the highest number that Tom had ever had. That part is not the good news. In addition, several of his blood count measurements, as a function of the trial drugs, were dangerously low. For example, his platelets, which control clotting of the blood, were as low as 16. A more normal platelet measurement would be somewhere between 150 and 400. With a platelet count that low, danger lurks everywhere!
Yet on January 19, Tom received the results of two bone marrow biopsies performed on January 11 – and the result of these tests was that the percentage of cancer involvement was down to 43%. THIS is the good news! And there is more . . .
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