Re: Chronic alcohol use and chromosome 17 damage

[Guest guest]

I wonder how this would translate into how much alcohol one

would have to consume to cause chromosome damage? Would it

be drinking to excess or drinking any at all?

R

[Guest guest]

It makes you wonder why alcoholics don't have cll??? Also

did I read in that article that the 11 is caused by gamma

radiation they did experimental radiation of me and my

sister to get rid of plantar warts when we were kids. Now my

younger sister has lost a lot of weight has enlarged nodes

night sweats and other symptoms I had. Her dr is sending her

to a hematologist. I hope that it's not cll. I worry if

this is something for my 4 children to worry about too!!!

Does anyone know?

[Guest guest]

" It makes you wonder why alcoholics don't have cll??? "

 

I found the article to be very interesting and am grateful for Chris's sleuthing

skills.  I'm not going to write anything here that my dear husband, , would

disapprove of.  is 76 years of age and is a recovering alcoholic.  He has

been sober approximately 12 years but believes himself to have been addicted to

alcohol since his senior year (perhaps earlier) at UVA, although he drank for

years prior to that.  I say that won't mind, because he is open about his

alcoholism and speaks to high school athletes about the effects of alcohol

abuse and the value of a life well lived.  He's well suited to talk with these

young people, because he was an athlete, himself, and played football for UVA in

the '50's.   has quite a story to tell and has touched many and brought

others to tears.  

 

I have always thought that if a survey of the 100,000 or so U.S.

and also Canadian CLLers were done, despite the fact that many active and

recovering alcoholics prefer not to disclose their diseases, it would be found

that a higher percentage of alcoholics would be found among the CLL population

than the general public.  Just my suspicion.  If alcohol abuse, particularly

long-term abuse, tears up organs of the body, kills brain cells, causes

peripheral neuropathy - and on and on - it's essentially a no-brainer that

chromosome damage is likely involved, as well.

 

Jan

[Guest guest]

I just wanted to state that I myself don't have a drinking

problem but that I see lots of alcoholics and they don't

have cll and wouldn't you think there would be a lot more!

[Guest guest]

I agree - I drink in moderation - try to eat right, exercise, am the right

body weight and don't smoke. My soon to be ex-husband and his family eat

lots of fatty meat, smoke, drink to excess although they are fairly active -

and they all live into their 80's or 90's. There might be some weak

correlation, but I do think there is a stronger genetic component to our

disease or multiple events that trigger it. I think we all would like to

understand the reasons we get the disease - but they are not there yet.

Ruth

On Sat, Feb 5, 2011 at 10:39 AM, suzanneslowik <suzanneslowik@...>wrote:

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> I just wanted to state that I myself don't have a drinking

> problem but that I see lots of alcoholics and they don't

> have cll and wouldn't you think there would be a lot more!

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