AGE AT DIAGNOSIS: 12weeks DIAGNOSIS: AML Leukemia
HOSPITAL: Hackensack University Medical Center, Hackensack, NJ
HIS FIRST TREATMENT: Joseph is the youngest to ever undergo the treatment
of high doses of chemotherapy, with one month in pediatric ICU, and then a stem cell transplant to date. If this treatment works well for him it will then be approved for other young children
with this affliction and maybe similar diseases. A new case study shows only 100 people young or old in the U.S. have ever undergone this treatment
TREATMENT PERIOD: waiting for transplant to
engraft completely, doing well so far.
PROGNOSIS: DR's. Hope for no relapses, however...high chances of one. He will be monitored VERY CLOSELY for the next five years.
DOCTORS'S NAMES: DR. JOEL BROCKSTEIN, DR. GILLIO
TIME IN HOSPITAL: 6 MONTHS
RELAPSE DATE: November 17, 2000
Joseph went to the clinic for his monthly checkup at "TOMORROW
CHILDRENS CLINIC" in Hackensack, and found out the cancer was back.
He had relapsed.
DIAGNOSIS: ALL leukemia, the cancer was back but changed to a different kind.Now the cancer was in
his bone marrow. He has relapsed at the age of only 13 months old.
TREATMENT: a more aggressive protocol of chemotherapy, which is much more highly toxic, and was told that maybe he
wouldn't survive the treatment.
TO DATE: Joseph survived the treatment and is in remission, waiting for theBone marrow transplant, which is scheduled for some time in FEBUARY! No exact
date yet.
He is to have a transplant from an outside source from the
