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Leukemia diagnosis was like ‘a kick in the gut’

Last summer when a bruise unexpectedly appeared on Dorothy Vernon-Brown’s left leg, she obviously was concerned.

 

Though painless and not the result of an injury, the unusually large and uncharacteristic contusion prompted the Progressive Jamaicans Association (PROJAM) chair to seek medical attention.

 

“The family doctor was out of the office for a week, so I decided to go to a walk-in clinic where some blood tests were ordered,” she recalled. “Later that same day, I returned to the clinic for the results and was informed by the young doctor that I was suffering from acute myeloid leukemia (AML).”

 

The most common acute leukemia affecting adults, AML is a cancer of the myeloid line blood cells characterized by the rapid growth of abnormal white blood cells that accumulate in the bone marrow and hinder the production of normal blood cells.

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