My father may have Lukemia

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Okay, tonight my father got a call from his doctor, telling him to meet him at the hospital.

My mother just told me before she left for work about his symptoms. He had a swelling in his side, a cough since october, and the doctor said that the swelling was his spleen and that his white blood cell count was high.
The doctor also said something regarding Lukemia and my father has has weight loss.

I did some online research and it sounds like the chronic stage of Lukemia.

I need to know his chances. My mother was stressing out on her way to work, but I tried to reassure her with what info I found.

Now I'm sitting here trying to find out his chance of survival while the medical dictionaries are annoyingly vague.

Can anyone tell me what kind of chance he has. Please, don't try to reassure me, I stretched the truth a LOT for my mother, but I need to know the cold hard facts.

mssue · Posted: Wed Apr 05, 2006 10:10 am Post subject: Re:cold facts

Hi Garet,

There are a couple of websites that might have some of the information You are seeking. Try http://seer.cancer.gov/ and http://www.acscsn.org/ Hope they help,let me know. Please remember that while You are in the process of trying to keep everybody else up-take good care of yourself too. It's okay to get upset ,cry, have a pity party whatever just get it out of your system.Then You can deal with the real.

Here if You need us - I usually check in daily-Best wishes!
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