A little fatigue, a little weight loss, was all that she was going through. She discussed with our family doctor and she took the advice to get her blood vital tested out. Soon we found that her Hemoglobin was 3.9. Series of tests, CT scans, ultra sounds, TB tests, bone marrow aspiration and we knew something was going wrong. She was diagnosed with Chronic Lympocytic Leukemia (CLL). However with Cyclin D1 test it was for sure - Mantle.
This whole process of figuring out took about 2 weeks form the time her first blood tests were done. I probably have spoken to 10 doctors, posted reports online and shared with distant doctors, sent reports on whatsapp etc. The road to figuring out was very windy, very disturbing and myraid of options on way. I was betting it could be a simple TB, but no, fate was not keen on making it simple.
Now, to talk about India. India is way advanced in medical tests field related to Oncology. All the standard tests like FISH, PET are available in India. There are numerous hospital in Hyderabad where you can get most of the tests done. The bone marrow aspiration test is painful, expensive (about Rs 15,000) and is performed at many major hospitals now. Make sure you discuss with your doctor about how to cope up with pain during the test - use local or general anesthesia etc.
Now that I have mentioned Hyderabad, we had our tests at KIMS. There are several major Cancer specialty hospitals in town and I have listed few below
This whole process of figuring out took about 2 weeks form the time her first blood tests were done. I probably have spoken to 10 doctors, posted reports online and shared with distant doctors, sent reports on whatsapp etc. The road to figuring out was very windy, very disturbing and myraid of options on way. I was betting it could be a simple TB, but no, fate was not keen on making it simple.
Now, to talk about India. India is way advanced in medical tests field related to Oncology. All the standard tests like FISH, PET are available in India. There are numerous hospital in Hyderabad where you can get most of the tests done. The bone marrow aspiration test is painful, expensive (about Rs 15,000) and is performed at many major hospitals now. Make sure you discuss with your doctor about how to cope up with pain during the test - use local or general anesthesia etc.
Now that I have mentioned Hyderabad, we had our tests at KIMS. There are several major Cancer specialty hospitals in town and I have listed few below
- American Oncology Institute at Citizens Hospital
- Indo American (Baswa Tarakama)
- KIMS
- Omega
- Am sure Apollo, Care and several others have full fledged Oncology departments
By the time we were sure about the diagnosis we had spent over Rs. One lakh.
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