Dr. Don Jurgens from Coborns Cancer Center talked with me on WJON during Health Matters today. The topic was Leukemia. He talked the varieties of Leukemia's, the chances of a cure and if people life many years with chronic Leukemia.
Doctors at the University of Minnesota Amplatz Children's Hospital are hoping a cord blood transplant will cure a boy diagnosed with HIV and leukemia. If successful, doctors say the 12-year-old boy would be only the second person in the world to be cured of HIV.