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Thanks for your info MarYbird. Are you on TV cooking show?
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marybird- In my 25 years of blogging about a spontaneous regression on this site and the Inspire site I have never had anyone report about spontaneous regression. Like your friend's
oncologist, my oncologist has never seen this either. I did read about a study in Italy in the late 1990's in which they studied spontaneous regression for CLL and found it does happen in about 5%. This regression is not considered a cure, because CLL can still be found in the bone marrow, it's simply inactive. He said that is different than a remission, in which a cancer is cured. If a patient doesn't regress there is still much hope, most are middle age or elderly and do not die from CLL but from other aging factors so eating healthy and staying active will be beneficial.
You friends profile is identical to mine. Thank you for sharing!