Not just my world, but my partner’s world and my family’s world completely imploded. When my oncologist called me, she was in tears. She says, “It’s so incredibly rare, I think less than 1% of patients, according to my doctor, relapse 10 years after a bone marrow transplant. She says she learned her illness was back in November of last year. I believe I’m on day plus-32 post transplant and I’ve been out of the hospital for almost exactly a week,” she tells the magazine. Speaking with Vogue magazine in an interview earlier this year, the Princeton University graduate said of her cancer, “I, today, am actually doing well. Or your immune system is not functioning correctly.”

Or you can have low platelets, which makes it possible for you to bleed easily. “And when your bone marrow doesn’t function correctly it means that you can have something happen to you like anemia. “In general having a blood cancer means that your bone marrow is not functioning correctly,” she explains. “One cell got really selfish and decided that it needed to take up all the resources of everybody else, and in doing so, took up space and energy from the rest of the body,” Dr. Nina Shah, a SurvivorNet adviser and hematologist at the University of California San Francisco, explains in an earlier interview how to best understand leukemia. It replaces bone marrow with healthy cells it is also called a “stem cell transplant.”ĭr. A bone marrow transplant is a treatment used for some cancers, like leukemia. Jaouad had a bone marrow transplant for treatment for her most recent bout of cancer. Partner Jon Batiste has supported her through her health battle. Suleika’s Leukemia Battle Jaouad first battled leukemia in her early 20s, and again today in her early 30s. On her social media, Jaouad has spoken about having a hopeful and positive outlook, even when times are hard. The multi-colored, gorgeous painting features a variety of brightly colored images, perhaps reflective of her brightness and optimism through her cancer battle.

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