NHL- Brian Boyle said his cancer is in remission after receiving the results from his most recent blood test on Monday.
The 33-year old New Jersey Devils center, diagnosed with chronic myeloid leukemia on Sept. 19, 2017, was originally told by doctors that it could take up to 18 months before the disease went into full remission; it took 12 months and 33 days. "A test (BCR-ABL1) looks for the leukemia cells in your blood and when I was first diagnosed, it was at 75 percent," Boyle said Wednesday. "At the end of last season, it was at .08 percent, and in July I was .04 percent. The results showed all zeros on Monday. It's full molecular remission, and I feel really good. It was kind of the way the progression was happening the last few tests. When I told my wife, she was excited and got emotional. "The game plan has been working well, and now I'm just going to continue with it. It was good news, but it doesn't change a whole lot for me and I'll continue taking the medicine." ------- You're going to have to excuse my ignorance here, but I had absolutely no idea I was still waiting to hear that Brian Boyle's cancer was in remission. I probably should have known, as his form of the dreadful disease was rare in that it could be contained in a way that allowed him to play through it, but I'm pretty sure the medically uneducated moron in me just assumed that the cancer eventually took off running when he got back to skating. That's on me (and a credit to him), obviously, though I do think that even the most relentless of conditions probably should have been able to take the hint that it picked the wrong damn dude when he had already potted 10 goals against professional athletes just three months after receiving his diagnosis. In my personal opinion, cancer wasted a hell of a lot of time sitting around doing absolute dick if only now has it realized it was time to pack up its shit and got to steppin' from the blood cells of Brian Boyle. In all seriousness, this is fantastic news for a guy whose been as good of a story off the ice as he has been an addition on the ice over the last year and change. You wouldn't know from his performance as a player or his persistence as a person, but I'm sure there was still quite a bit of anxiety lingering prior to him getting the conclusive report that he's cancer-free. It's no surprise that he basically busted the original timeline over his knee in kicking the crap out of every last percentage point, as it certainly seemed like he never wasted a second in working his way back into his routine. Much like the rest of the hockey community, I'm glad to see that determination paid off in giving him and his family some premature peace of mind.
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