Monday, June 11, 2012

Robin Roberts Announces Myelodysplastic Syndrome (MDS) Diagnosis

"Today, I want to let you know that I’ve been diagnosed with MDS or myelodysplastic syndrome.  It's a disease of the blood and bone marrow and was once known as preleukemia.
My doctors tell me I'm going to beat this -- and I know it's true."

http://gma.yahoo.com/robin-roberts-im-going-to-beat-this.html
http://content.usatoday.com/communities/entertainment/post/2012/06/robin-roberts-battling-rare-blood-disorder-/1#.T9XzPBxUy-0 (Click links to story)


I am just heartbroken by this news this morning, I look up to Robin Roberts as she is a 5 yr.Triple Negative Breast Cancer Survivor herself and have shown the world her determination and courage throughout her journey, live on Good Morning America. My heart and prayers go out to Robin, we'll see you through this! ~ Melissa Paskvan

http://www.cnn.com/2012/06/11/showbiz/robin-roberts-mds/index.html
(Click link for full story)

"The way we cure cancer today is by chemotherapy usually," said Gregory. "You may combine chemotherapy with radiation, and those drugs if they cure the patient probably have given a little bit of damage to the bone marrow, and depending on how much damage has occurred to the bone marrow, stem cell patients may develop the therapy-related myelodysplastic syndrome." http://abclocal.go.com/wls/video?id=8697524&pid=8697412 
(Click link to video on what is MDS?)