Leukaemia is a terrible type of cancer; the doctors will always give you words of encouragement. recently we lost my friend's mom to leukemia, it was just like a dream, at first she was been treated for infection but she was then advised by her children to go to a different hospital for another opinion, that was when she found out it was cancer, and she was still not diagnosed the right type of cancer until it had gone to her lungs. It was a tragedy for the family, which they are still trying to recover from.