Goldman Appointment

[Guest guest]

Today I had the opportunity to be examined by Goldman, formerly of

Hammersmith Hospital in London, a physician very well regarded there for his

knowledge of CML, and now a Researcher at NIH in Bethesda for a year.

A friend in the UK recommended I meet with him for a second opinion and told me

how to get in touch with him. I'm very glad I did. I had lots of blood drawn

and one draw was for a qpcr or PCR-RT as some of you know it. My numbers cam e

back respectably and I'll find out about the pcr in a couple of weeks. Dr.

Goldman and a fello working with him were very thorough about my history and I

learned several things I want to pass along to you.

First, there's a new German paper (sorry, no names) that reports that people who

take a long time to reach CCR have as good a survivability rate as people who

reach it quickly.

Secondly, part of his mission here is to meet with heme/oncs around the country

and really push the necessity for PCR-RTs instead of FISH which so many doctors

depend upon. He said they're 10 years behind Europe in this.

It was Dr. Goldman who strategized an enormously complicated case of a friend of

mine ( Rees) who is now recovering quite nicely from a BMT from her

mother's marrow. This is after having gone through a year of hell when her

counts dropped to literally zero and no one could figure out what was going on

with her. It turns out that CML was just masking MDS and AML and those were the

diseases that she needed to be fighting. Lots of chemo almost did her in but

she made it through and I give Dr. Goldman and his fellow physicians at

Hammersmith loads of credit. Of course, is as tough as they come,

too!

I'm seeeing Dr. Goldman again in 8 weeks and happy to be doing so. Having the

team at NIH Research is not a bad deal!

All for now.

L