After being in remission for 12 years, Frank has now relapsed 3 times in the last 2 years. The timeline: 7/2005- diagnosed with Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia (ALL) 11/2005- Bone Marrow Transplant (BMT) 9/2016-Cancer is back, this time affecting his red blood cells and platelets in addition to his white blood cells which were affected the previous time 3/2017- 2nd Bone Marrow Transplant 8/2017- Relapse, Acute Myeloid Leukemia (AML) is back 9/2017-Donor lymphocyte infusion (DLI), similar procedure to the BMT but they separate out and give only the donors T-cells 8/2018-Just about to finally return to work and to teaching CCD, but relapse again, AML is back
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