alt Hacker NewsI'm an ALL Leukemia survivor (~89' to ~95') and this is incredibly encouraging to hear. I'll never forget the long hospital stays, early-morning surgeries, and now, the long-term impact to my life (it changes your entire personality).
I hope we eventually stomp it out. No child deserves to go through that. Here's hoping we can take what's been learned in the West and see to it that all kids get access to affordable treatment.
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throwaway2037 • 06/16/2025
> it changes your entire personality
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My son, not I, had ALL and is in remission.
I don't know how to quantify the impact it had on him from a personality perspective, as he is severely autistic and barely speaks. He was in treatment from age 3 to 6.
For the rest of his family (parents and sibling) it had a massive impact. I already had anxiety issues (TBI while in the military flipped that switch), now I have something my doc describes as health related PTSD.