The current condition of patients waiting for transplants is tragic. Experts about the treatment of one such patient described in an article published on Scroll.in have been given below. After long bouts of fever in 2012, when 32-year-old Shabnam got her blood tested, the local pathologist in her hometown near Kolkata looked at the reports and asked her parents to take her to Mumbai. Shabnam’s brother, who works as a senior manager in a coffee chain in Mumbai, sought an appointment at a reputed private hospital in the city.
“Once they told us it was cancer, we rushed to Tata Memorial,” said Shabnam’s father. “It was earth-shattering.” Shabnam had acute myeloid leukemia, a condition where abnormal white blood cells grow rapidly, accumulate in the bone marrow and interfere with the production of normal blood cells. From July till November 2012, she was given chemotherapy though her father…
