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[CallMeLucky]

http://www.kiddermin...ght_for_others/

Baby joy spurs cancer survivor in fight for others

7:00am Thursday 22nd December 2011 in News

A LEUKAEMIA sufferer is looking forward to his first Christmas as a father, after life-saving drugs made his dreams a reality.

Kris Griffin, of Kidderminster, is a proud parent thanks to sperm he banked four years ago when he was diagnosed with Chronic Myeloid Leukaemia (CML).

When drug Dasatinib gave him back a normal life expectancy, he and wife Kelly decided to try for a baby.Luca Arthur Francesco Griffin was born on October 5 and his doting dad said it felt "surreal" that he will soon be celebrating his new son's first Christmas.

He explained: "It's amazing. I never imagined that this could happen when I was diagnosed but it all comes to fruition and everything happens for a reason. It's all down to the excellent treatment I received."

[pamsouth]

It is wonderful to hear some good news! 

Congrads to the proud parents, who made some wise decision and had some doctors he trusted.

  In the beginning what seemed to be devastating news of Leukemia, had a happy ending with the birth of child.

PamSouth

[Taylor]

I'm curious what the sperm bank part has to do with anything.  I thought TKIs didn't actually cause problems with males conceiving.

[CallMeLucky]

I think that was just a personal decision he had made.  It appears that TKI drugs do not have an impact on the baby when it is the father taking the drug, there have been a number of healthy Gleevec babies.  Dasatinib is a little newer and that was four years back when he was diagnosed so I guess at the time that was what he decided to do.