great meeting in baveno, italy

Me and Fan, both of us representing our MaxFamily group with our posters

During one of panel discussion

Baveno town viewed from the boat ride

I am safe and and back to Malaysia yesterday. Apart from a bit of jetlag, the rest are okay and I am still excited about the meeting.

Baveno is a small town by the side of elegant Lake Maggiore. The town is a bit quiet but yet I would say a excitingly beautiful place.

I met a lot of great people during the meeting representing support group, physician, drug companies and most of them comes from European and Latin America countries . The whole meeting was about getting to know latest updates on CML and GIST and its treatment and also about advocacy and networking among various support group. I have learned a lot from the meeting and hope it will be another motivation for us to push the group to the next level.

I also took a chance to talk to one of the speaker who apparently a transplanter from Hammersmith, UK and discuss about my progress.

I am seeing a dermatologist next Friday for my bad acne problem and next week I am seeing the hematologist again to review the PCR molecular result.

With the Novartis officials