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• Pia Awal was diagnosed with AML in June, 2002. She is an educator and lives in the New York City area. Pia relapsed in June of 2004 and is looking for an unrelated donor for a transplant. She is from India and the most likely to match someone of Indian, Pakistani, Bangladeshi or South Asian descent.

• On being 71, having leukemia, and seeking medical treatment written by Ken Beckman , describes his experience of being diagnosed with AML in August, 1996 and eventually having an autologous peripherial stem cell transplant in January, 1998 at the age of 71!!

• Kathleen Bethune lives in South Africa and was diagnosed with AML in 1999. She had a bone marrow transplant. This journal was started after her treatment was over.

• Jeff Davis was diagnosed with Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia (CLL) in March, 1998, which transformed to AML / Small Lymphocytic Lymphoma (SLL). Jeff had an autologous BMT and later a Nonmyeloablative Allogeneic Transplant.

• Ellen Fein was diagnosed with aML in December, 2000 and underwent a peripheral blood stem cell transplant (PBSCT) with a matched unrelated donor Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center. Her husband Michael Goldfinger was diagnosed with myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS) in 1997. He also had a bone marrow transplant but passed away in December, 1997.

• Goran was diagnosed with AML in May, 1997. He lives in Austrialia. His site is intended to provide an insight and perhaps a little inspiration and hope to patients with AML and loved ones who have AML.

• Time on Fire : My Comedy of Terrors (book description and reviews from Amazon.com) is an autobiographical account of actor Evan Handler 's diagnosis of AML in the mid 1980's and his treatment, including relapse and subsequent autologous BMT. The book is based on his one-man off-Broadway show. This book is at times horrifying and at other times humorous.

• Gawie Marx was diagnosed with Acute Promyelocytic Leukemia (APL) in November, 1993. He was treated with chemotherapy, including All-Trans-Retinoic Acid and a bone marrow transplant. He lives Cape Town, South Africa.

• Humberto Martinez's AML Story.

• Robert Waters was diagnosed with APL in December, 2000. He was treated at Christie Hospital in Manchester, England.

  
  

• Stephen Dennison will be 8 years old on November 1, 1999. He underwent a BMT, October 27, 1999 at Duke University Medical Center for AML.

• Steven Haley is a 5 year old from Fort Worth, Texas. He was diagnosed with AML in June, 1996. He has relapsed and had a matched unrelated BMT in June, 1997, he is now more then 6 years post transplant and doing well.

• Nicholas Jones was diagnosed with AML (M5) shortly after his first birthday on January 20th, 1999. Nicholas is in remission and a bone marrow transplant is planned for early June.

• Krupal Desai is a 14 year old with AML who lives in Illinois. He is needs to have a BMT and his family is looking for an unrelated donor.

• Alex Martini was diagnosed with AML in November, 1998 at the age of 10 months. Alex relapsed seven times during her five years of treatment and underwent two cord blood transplants at Duke University Medical CenterDuke University Medical Center. She lives in Washington state and as of March 2006 is still in remission, nearly three years after her 2nd cord blood transplant.

• Hamish McNally lives in Buninyong, Victoria Australia, was born in 1990, and diagnosed with AML in September, 2003. He had a transplant from his mother, Sandra McNally, in March, 2004. His web site, which is dedicated to "dedicated to the inglorious act of vomit and associated manifestations of chemotherapy and toxic drug induced states" contains contributions from both him and his parents.

• Nathaniel Parry was diagnosed with AML at the age of 8 months in October 23, 1999. He was treated with chemotherapy at Sutter Memorial Hospital in Sacramento, California. He relapsed in May, 2000 and underwent an umbilical cord blood transplant Duke University Medical Center.

• Greg Smith was diagnosed with AML while deployed to Pakistan in Oct 2001 supporting Operation Enduring Freedom. He was treated with chemo and at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington D.C.

• Katia Solomn was diagnosed with AML M4, in April, 2002 at the age of 2. She was treated with chemotherapy and finished treatment in September, 2002. She relapsed in spinal fluid, bone marrow, and blood in August, 2003 and is preparing for a bone marrow transplant.

• Michael Thompson lives in Austin, Texas and was diagnosed with AML at the age of 10, in October, 1995. Michael has had two BMTs , he had a MUD transplant in September, 1996 and then relapsed and had a second transplant in January, 1998. He remains in remission, although he had another bout with cancer, an osteosarcoma on his jawbone, that was removed in March, 2000.

  
  

• Carol Albright was diagnosed with AML in June, 2003. She was initially treated with chemotherapy, but relapsed in March, 2004 and then underwnet a non-myeoablative ("mini") cord blood transplant at Fairview-University Medical Center in Minneapolis. Carol passed away in August, 2004. She was a Health Informatics writer and consultant who lived in Minnesota.

• Jan Bolton was a Systemic Family Therapist, who lived in a pretty village in Hampshire UK. She was diagnosed with AML (M2) in December 2000, having just returned from a trekking trip to Nepal. She relapsed in December, 2001 and had a stem cell transplant with her sister Jean as the donor in March, 2002. She relapsed again in August, 2002 and passed away in September.

• C.C. Crawford was diagnosed with AML in April, 1999. He had an autologous stem cell transplant in November, 1999. Sadly he relapsed in March, 2000 and passed away July 14, 2000.

• Daegen James Feyh, was born January 25, 2001 and lived in Topeka, Kansas. Daegen was diagnosed with AML in June, 2003 and had a bone marrow transplant. Unfortunately he relapsed and passed away on July 17, 2005.

• Jordyn Fitzpatrick was diagnosed with AML in March, 1999 and is had a BMT in November, 1999, she passed on May 8, 2000.

• Katie Leanne Floyd was born June 18, 1997. She lived in South Carolina and was diagnosed with AML in January, 1999. She had two cord blood transplants at Duke University Medical Center, but passed away from complications of the second one on October 4, 1999.

• Gabriel (Gabe) Xavier Ferguson passed away on August 3rd 2002 from complications of GVHD. He was diagnosed with bone cancer in 1998 and AML in February of 2002 he spent the last months of his life in the hospital, after having a cord blood transplant in May, 2002.

• Heath Harper passed away January 2, 1997, after a matched unrelated donor (MUD) bone marrow transplant at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center . Heath was a very special young man who was battling AML.

• Megan Haverlack lived in Southern Washington state and was diagnosed with AML in May, 2000. She was scheduled for a BMT with an unrelated donor in January, 2001, but the donor was not able to donate for medical reasons. Megan had an unrelated transplant in October, 2001 from a 5/6 match, but passed away from complications December 14th.

• Mollie Killian-Storck lived in Michigan and was diagnosed with AML in November, 1998. She relapsed in June, 1999 and had a cord blood transplant at Duke University Medical Center. Mollie passed away August 14, 1999 from pneumonia.

• Isle leukemia patient reaches for `a miracle, an article about Carole Ann Kitahara , 19, and her boyfriend James Lee , and Carole's battle against AML. Carole passed away January 7, 1999 shortly after this article was published. From the Honolulu Star Bulletin, December 12, 1998.

• Leslie Kuizema was diagnosed with AML in December, 2001. She was treated with chemo alone but relapsed in January, 2003. She had a Bone Marrow Transplant in February, 2003 with her sister as donor.. Unfortunately she passed away from complications of the transplant in January, 2006.

• Michael Ryan Leal was diagnosed with AML and passed away August 26, 2001 at the age of 18 after two bone marrow transplants. A fund has been set up in his name to fund research into Acute Leukemia and Bone Marrow Transplant, as well as to assist patients at Princess Margaret Hospital in Toronto.

• Sebastian Marat lived in Redmond Washington. He was diagnosed with Natural Killer Cell Myeloid Precursor Leukemia in July 2001. He had a stem cell transplant with his mother Kyra as the donor at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center (FHCRC) in December, 2001. He relapsed and passed away in April 2002 at the age of 3. This story is from the The Herald of Everett, Washington and was written by Todd C. Frankel.

• John Stanford, Seattle Schools Superintendent, was diagnosed with AML in March, 1998. He underwent a periheral stem cell transplant at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center (FHCRC) in August, 1998. Unfortunately he relapsed after the transplant and passed away November 29, 1998. The Seattle Times has a memorial page to John Stanford that includes articles about his battle with AML.

• Jennifer Stroud lived in Dallas, Texas and was diagnosed with AML in December, 1993 at the age of 5. She was treated with chemo and relapsed and then had a BMT from an unrelated donor. She relapsed after the BMT and passed away in February, 1996.

• Ken "Mach" Tatum was a pilot in the Air Force. He was diagnosed with AML in May, 2001. He relapsed in March, 2002 and had a MUD BMT in Seattle at the VA hospital in August, 2002. He relapsed again in November, 2002 and passed away in December, 2002.

• Sara Weaver was the lead singer in the band Swisher. She was diagnosed with AML in August, 2000 and underwent a bone marrow transplant at Kimmel Cancer Center of Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Sara passed away August 14, 2002.
  

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