Anne McAuley Lopez

Anne McAuley Lopez

We Don’t Get to Ring the Bell: My CML Story Anne McAuley Lopez thought life was pretty great. She was running her own professional writing business and starting a life with the man of her dreams. Then a simple blood test revealed more than she expected....
Britt Hemsell

Britt Hemsell

My 20 Year CML Journey I was diagnosed with CML March 19, 2004 at age 34, three weeks after routine blood work from an annual physical came back with an abnormally high white count. My family and I’s world would never be the same. I had an almost 2 yr old at the...
Martin Steven

Martin Steven

I went for a routine check up when I was 26 years old in 2016. Part of that was a CBC panel. 5 days later I got a call from a frantic nurse, “We need you to come in right now.” Over the coming days I would be hospitalized at the Cedars-Sinai where Dr. Lill would...
Mel Mann

Mel Mann

World’s Longest Living Gleevec/TKI Survivor, surviving CML for nearly three decades I was diagnosed with CML in January 1995. I went in to get the results of a MRI that I had taken in December 1994. The tests revealed that I did not have the marrow of a normal...