Hollyoaks Storylines - Charlie has leukaemia?!
Question: Maybe I am wrong but was that the quickest diagnosis and start to treatment ever known to man?????? My neice has been told she has to have a bone marrow transplant or very soon she will end up with leukaemia. She was told this over 6 months ago and we are still waiting for a date for her to go in. We as her family have not been tested and the donor list seems to be taking forever!!! If only life was as simple as it is in Hollyoaks!
Answers: Maybe I am wrong but was that the quickest diagnosis and start to treatment ever known to man?????? My neice has been told she has to have a bone marrow transplant or very soon she will end up with leukaemia. She was told this over 6 months ago and we are still waiting for a date for her to go in. We as her family have not been tested and the donor list seems to be taking forever!!! If only life was as simple as it is in Hollyoaks!
You are right my boyfriend has the same type and it wouldn't be possible for the father to give bone marrow as he is only a 50% match so a lot of things in the story is fake it took 2 days to diagnose and 4 years later they still havn't found a close enough match but he is responding very well to medicine! xx
You need to understand what happens in matching bone marrow. A sibling is really the only chance of a family match, and they only have a 25 percent. Insurance nor the hosp will pay for other family to be tested. If you want to pay out of pocket, or sign up for the resgistry (which costs about 50$ out of pocket to help recoup some of the costs because the testing is very EXPENSIVE) and then you will know if you are a match.
First, it can take up to a couple weeks to get a list of matches. Some times, there are no matches and they just keep searching hoping someone will sign up that does match.
Then, the matched possible donor has to go in for more testing to see if they are really infact a match. That will involve a blood test, possible a bone marrow biopsy. Then if they do match, an extensive medical history is taken. Sometimes a possible donor is ruled out there because of something new that wasnt in the history when they signed up for the registry.
Then the are give a very detailed physical. The tests will range from blood tests to see all the chemicals, blood counts, levels of everything, and what antibodies you have, to heart tests, stress tests, mris and cat scans and ect. They do all kinds of tests, to make sure first the donor is in good health, but second that the patient is getting good marrow from a healthy patient. It could be very very bad for the patient if the donor has certain illnesses or diseases or just isnt healthy.
All these tests take a lot of time.
www.marrow.org will give the proceedures and requirements for both donor and reciepient. It will also have links that can give more detailed info on the disease she has.
I bet if you asked the doc he/she will tell you that they expect a good 3 months to a year from the time the search begins til the time transplant is done. And thats if they find a match at all. Minorites, especially african american, latinos, and asian have very low chances of finding a donor because there just simply arent that many people of those races on the registry.
They are also searching internationally, but most other countries just doesnt have the level of program that the US and UK have.
Have they tried searching for cord blood? Cord blood can work very well even if the marrow/stem cells are a mismatch. It has to do with the fact that they are baby cells, and the site I gave you will talk about why that is.