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Jackie's Story
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After leading a normal and healthy childhood, giving birth to two beautiful children, and embarking on a
promising career, I was diagnosed with Acute Myelogenous Leukemia on March 29, 2001. My name is Jacqueline Donahue. I am now
30 years old and in June 2001, my leukemia had gone into remission. In January 2003, my leukemia relapsed. I, along
with many others who suffer with leukemia, are depending on a bone marrow transplant for survival.
Each year, nearly thousands of adults and children in the United States learn that they have leukemia. Leukemia is cancer
of the blood cells. Cancer is a group of more than 100 diseases that have two important things in common.
• Certain cells in the body become abnormal.
• The body keeps producing large numbers of the abnormal cells.
To understand leukemia, it is helpful to know about normal blood cells
and what happens to them when leukemia develops.
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