Since I have posted in my blog about what's been going on with my brother, I figured with the news I received today that it might just be time to make yet another post. (For those of you who are reading this for the first time, my brother was diagnosed in December with Stage 4 Leukemia)

My brother has just finished going through his third round of Chemo, he's expected to be at the halfway point as they only figured they would need six rounds of the Chemo. They did some new tests on him to see how the chemo is affecting the cancer and we received some great news. The cancer has responded very very favorably to the treatment and as of Monday there has been a little over 75% reduction in the amount of cancer tissue in his body. His white blood cell counts are at the lowest they have been during all of this and it is a good thing it wasn't a treatment week or they would have had to postpone it to give his white blood cells a chance to come up. He has about ten days until his next treatment and they are hoping that it sufficient time to raise his levels so that they can proceed as planned. At this point, his doctor is thinking that after the next three rounds of chemo, he should be in the clear for quite some time.

So in short, after the next three rounds, they will do all the tests to confirm he's in remission. Then after that it will be quarterly bloodwork and yearly CT scans to make sure it hasn't come back. His doctor don't think it will anytime soon, but as with all cancers, there is never a guarantee.

Thank you to everyone for all your support through this, I can't express how much it meant to me to know that I had such a wonderful support group.