Chronic Myeloid Leukemia
Phony hated her mother even more now. She sneered, angrily turning around.
"I don't have the time to argue with dead people" she said as she ran upstairs.
The living room went back to absolute serenity as Madam Cypher ordered a servant to clean up the mess on the floor with a tired expression.
Pressing the area between her eyebrows, she looked aged as she sat on a chair. She looked at her daughter whose head was bowed low looking dispirited.
Her pale lips gave her Ashen pretty face a sickly vibe, her eyes had no light in them as her wet long lashes fluttered anytime she blinked tears dropping from them making her look pitiful. She was skin and Bones sitting there, the gown she was wearing seemed too heavy on her even if it was light because of how thin she was.
Her precious daughter has not always been like this.
She used to be a bright, charming lady who always held her head up high. Looking down at others.
Her daughter was a smart, talented, beautiful and very intelligent lady. She didn't even strive to become one of the top ten medical student in her school.
Wherever she went, she felt smug and was complimented every now and then within her circle of high class friends for raising such a capable daughter. She was the peak of perfection!
She couldn't help but ask. Why? Why was her perfect daughter afflicted with a terrible illness that could take her life any moment while that wench's daughter was still alive and well somewhere out there.
She reminisced on the shocking moment when her daughter was diagnosed six months ago with a rare case of Chronic myeloid leukemia by the doctor.
It is a type of a slowly progressing blood cancer that begins in the bone marrow which is caused by chromosomes mutation that occurs spontaneously. It could only be treated professionally when there is a proficient bone marrow to be used, but they couldn't find a donor. They could also permanently treat it with the blood that remain in the umbilical cord and placenta after birth from a familial relation of the patient.
Supplying the doctors with rich source of hematopoietic progenitor cells.
Bone marrows from donors has traditionally been used as a source of stem cells for restoration of a diseased bone marrow.
But researchers have demonstrated that cord blood provides an excellent alternative source. Thus, the cord blood is utilised for the treatment of many underlying cases of leukemia.