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Chronic Myeloid Leukemia (CML)

The news of NBA legend Kareem Abdul-Jabbar's diagnosis with Chronic Myeloid Leukemia (CML) calls for a primer on that "other" hematologic cancer, leukemia.

Leukemias arise in the bone marrow, where your body makes both red and white blood cells, causing problems in the blood- like anemia (low red cells), or immune system issues, such as low white infection-fighting blood cell counts, which opens the way to often serious infections in the bloodstream.

LLS Phone Education Programs for December: "NHL: Treatment Advances"

On December 17 2009, as part of the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society's ongoing Lymphoma Education Series, the LLS is offering another FREE telephone education program.

In order to participate, you need only to register. These are free, 90 minute teleconferences/webcasts hosted by blood cancer experts and followed by sessions in which you can ask questions. You don't need to go anywhere to participate, you don't need to pay anything, you just need to call in at the proper time.

LLS Phone Education Programs for December: "New Developments in CLL"

On December 10 2009, as part of the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society's ongoing Lymphoma Education Series, the LLS is offering another FREE telephone education program.

LLS Phone Education Programs for November: "Understanding AML"

On November 24 2009, as part of the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society's ongoing Lymphoma Education Series, the LLS is offering another FREE telephone education program.

Stem Cell Molecular Key Discovered

University of British Columbia researchers have discovered a "molecular key" that could help increase the success of blood stem cell transplants, a procedure currently used to treat diseases such as leukemia, Hodgkin's lymphoma and aplastic anemia.

The Suzanne Somers Vanity Calamity, part 5: Conclusion

Suzanne Somers is driven by a colossal vanity.

I know this because she's trying so hard to prove it. In the process of pitching every anti-aging protocol she can get her hands on, she has become a most public and embarrassing casualty of the image-conscious MTV age. That she's so willing and anxious to push these unproven protocols on her readers and on the viewers of shows from Oprah to Good Morning America makes Somers and her desperate vanity a growing public health calamity.

The Suzanne Somers Vanity Calamity, part 4: All her quacks in a row

Somers' book is based on interviews with the following doctors and individuals. Almost without exception, each of the 'experts' Somers interviews has something to do with anti-aging—the great motif, you might say obsession, in Somers' life—as well as a significant financial interest in being featured in the book, a chance to promote their own anti-aging and anti-cancer supplements, therapies, books, CDs, DVDs etc.

The Suzanne Somers Vanity Calamity, part 3: Appalling contentions

In her book, Somers makes a number of appalling contentions. Here are just two of them:

She writes that the modern lifestyle of living amidst chemicals amounts to "asking for" cancer. "It's not an accident" to get the disease, she claims, asserting that if we "allow our stress to run unchecked, if we don't value sleep and get enough of it, then the consequences are ours."

The Suzanne Somers Vanity Calamity, part 2: Logic? Who needs it.

Here is an example, from Knockout, of Suzanne Somers' attack on modern anti-cancer treatments such as chemotherapy. She writes,

The Suzanne Somers Vanity Calamity, part 1: "Full-Body Cancer"

Actress Suzanne Somers is making the rounds right now publicizing her latest book, Knockout: Interviews with Doctors Who Are Curing Cancer, and How to Prevent Getting it In the First Place. Like her previous books, this one is drawing ire from the 'mainstream' medical community.

One of the terms she uses is "full-body cancer." I found several references in her book to this horrific-sounding cancer; most often, she'll phrase it like she does on one page, writing: