WBC: 8.7
HTC: 39.3
PLATELETS: 288
ANC: 70
*Kappa: 18.93
*Lambda: 22.34
*Ratio: .85
Thankfully, his M-Spike remains at .3! His oncologist is very pleased.
Tuesday, December 22, 2015
Thursday, December 17, 2015
Dom Remains in Complete Remission.....77 Months!
Normal levels of serum free light chains are:
• Kappa: 3.3–19.4 mg/L
• Lambda: 5.71–26.3 mg/L
• Kappa/lambda ratio: 0.26–1.65
His December Numbers Were:
*Kappa: 18.93
*Lambda: 22.34
*Ratio: .85
Thankfully, his M-Spike remains at .3! His oncologist is very pleased.
Tulane is sending me the other numbers via mail.
Merry Christmas!
• Kappa: 3.3–19.4 mg/L
• Lambda: 5.71–26.3 mg/L
• Kappa/lambda ratio: 0.26–1.65
His December Numbers Were:
*Kappa: 18.93
*Lambda: 22.34
*Ratio: .85
Thankfully, his M-Spike remains at .3! His oncologist is very pleased.
Tulane is sending me the other numbers via mail.
Merry Christmas!
Study Solidifies Agent Orange and Myeloma Link
Exposure to the herbicide Agent Orange has long been considered a potential risk factor for multiple myeloma (MM) and its precursor condition, monoclonal gammopathy of undetermined significance (MGUS), although the science behind the association was limited.
Now, new research brings definitive evidence that Operation Ranch Hand veterans, U.S. Air Force (USAF) personnel who conducted aerial missions spraying the chemical during the Vietnam War, are more than two times as likely to have MGUS as other veterans (JAMA Oncol 2015;1[8]:1061-1068, PMID: 26335650).
“There has already been approval by the federal government to compensate people who served in the Vietnam War and developed lymphoma and myeloma, but there was no scientific evidence behind that—it was a political consensus,” said lead researcher C. Ola Landgren, MD, PhD a professor of medicine at Weill Cornell Medical College and the chief of the Myeloma Service at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, both in New York City. “That motivated my colleagues and me to follow up on prior findings and investigate the link between MGUS and exposure to Agent Orange.”
To do so, Dr. Landgren and his colleagues carried out a detailed examination of data and stored blood samples obtained from Operation Ranch Hand veterans and comparison veterans who served in Southeast Asia at the same time, from 1962 to 1971, but were not involved in herbicide spray missions.
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No Big Surprise in our Case
Now, new research brings definitive evidence that Operation Ranch Hand veterans, U.S. Air Force (USAF) personnel who conducted aerial missions spraying the chemical during the Vietnam War, are more than two times as likely to have MGUS as other veterans (JAMA Oncol 2015;1[8]:1061-1068, PMID: 26335650).
“There has already been approval by the federal government to compensate people who served in the Vietnam War and developed lymphoma and myeloma, but there was no scientific evidence behind that—it was a political consensus,” said lead researcher C. Ola Landgren, MD, PhD a professor of medicine at Weill Cornell Medical College and the chief of the Myeloma Service at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, both in New York City. “That motivated my colleagues and me to follow up on prior findings and investigate the link between MGUS and exposure to Agent Orange.”
To do so, Dr. Landgren and his colleagues carried out a detailed examination of data and stored blood samples obtained from Operation Ranch Hand veterans and comparison veterans who served in Southeast Asia at the same time, from 1962 to 1971, but were not involved in herbicide spray missions.
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Tuesday, December 15, 2015
We're Ready for Christmas!
We live way back in the woods...3/4 miles away from the nearest neighbor. Thus, we don't decorate the outside of the house..... just the inside.
This year, we thought we'd get Chinese take-out on Christmas Eve. Christmas day will be just the two of us. I'm making Roasted Duck, Jeff Smith's Red Cabbage, his Balsamic Brussels Sprouts and Gratin Dauphinois (A decadent potato dish)
Remember the reason for the season....Keep CHRIST in Christmas, gang!
This year, we thought we'd get Chinese take-out on Christmas Eve. Christmas day will be just the two of us. I'm making Roasted Duck, Jeff Smith's Red Cabbage, his Balsamic Brussels Sprouts and Gratin Dauphinois (A decadent potato dish)
Remember the reason for the season....Keep CHRIST in Christmas, gang!
Saturday, December 5, 2015
Monsanto to be Finally Put on Trial for Crimes Against Humanity
The Organic Consumers Association (OCA), IFOAM International Organics, Navdanya, Regeneration International (RI), and Millions Against Monsanto, joined by dozens of global food, farming and environmental justice groups announced today that they will put Monsanto MON (NYSE), a US-based transnational corporation, on trial for crimes against nature and humanity, and ecocide, in The Hague, Netherlands, next year on World Food Day, October 16, 2016.
Since the beginning of the twentieth century according to the groups, Monsanto has developed a steady stream of highly toxic products which have permanently damaged the environment and caused illness or death for thousands of people.
These products include:
• PCBs (polychlorinated biphenyl), one of the 12 Persistent Organic Pollutants (POP) that affect human and animal fertility;
• 2,4,5 T (2,4,5-trichlorophenoxyacetic acid), a dioxin-containing component of the defoliant, Agent Orange, which was used by the US Army during the Vietnam War and continues to cause birth defects and cancer;
• Lasso, an herbicide that is now banned in Europe;
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