Best Life: Managing myelofibrosis [Video]

LOS ANGELES, Calif. (Ivanhoe Newswire) – Your blood accounts for about eight percent of your total body weight.

It’s vital for life, but when cancer happens in the blood, it can become life-altering and even life-threatening.

Ten percent of all cancers are blood cancers, one of which is myelofibrosis which affects about 25,000 people in the United States. There are few drugs approved for treating it.

Now, the FDA has just approved one that helps patients with anemia – a devastating side effect of myelofibrosis.

Andrew and Esther Schorr are on a mission – spreading the word about myelofibrosis – something they know all too well about.

“I had some pain in my legs, which turned out to be some blood clots, which was a shocker,” said Andrew.

Andrew was diagnosed with the rare blood cancer in 2011. At the time, there were no drugs for myelofibrosis.

He religiously worked …