Ohio State CML news x 2

[Guest guest]

I came across 2 interesting/exciting pieces of info today both from Ohio State

University: (apologies if they have been posted before)

1) about a promising new extract: forskolin, which comes from the root of the

plant coleus forskohlii, a native of India that is used in the United States as

an ornamental plant. Early results on CML patient cells both in culture and in

mice showed that forskolin reduced the cancer cells' ability to grow by up to 90

percent.

And 2) Researchers have discovered a key reason why a form of leukemia

progresses from its more-treatable chronic phase to a life-threatening phase

called blast crisis.

see link about 1) at

http://www.jamesline.com/news/press/Pages/index.aspx?ID=2363 & i=0 & SIDS=

2) at

http://www.healthnewsdigest.com/news/Cancer_Issues_660/Key_Cause_of_Chronic_Leuk\

emia_Progression.shtml

This is some excellent news for us!!

I had bma/b # 32 on Monday....hoping I may finally be at zero.

Peace and Prayers,

dx 11/98