leukemia

It's hard to believe that I've now reached the 6-month point of my treatment for Chronic Myeloid Leukemia (CML) at Roswell Cancer Center in Buffalo. My family doctor here in Utica caught the abnormality during normal blood work back in May of last year. My white blood count was elevated and the disease was officially diagnosed by Dr. Samir Desai at the Utica Cancer Center a few weeks later.

In the Spring, I was diagnosed with Chronic Myeloid Leukemia, a blood cancer that now in 2024 has excellent survival rates if your body can accept the oral chemotherapy designed to target the disease. This is my two-month treatment progress report.

A young boy visited the cats at the Niagara County SPCA this weekend and made sure they know he has their backs.

Hearing the words your son has cancer is hard enough. Hearing you have it too is unimaginable. That's what happened to one CNY mother.

Family, friends, and co-workers were disappointed to find out that the Marcy Mom, Amy Morrissey, was no longer in remission from her recent Leukemia diagnosis. She is a mother of four and also a grandmother. She is also a hard working bartender from the North Utica Applebee's. Despite this setback she is determined to fight this disease.

Amy Morrissey is a mother of four and grandmother of one. She lives in Marcy and is facing the battle of her life. Marcy may be where she calls home, but right now she is living in a hospital where she will stay for 6 weeks. During that time she will undergo chemotherapy treatments. What she thought was the flu turned out to be Leukemia.