It's cancer but it's a chronic condition. I'm 27 years old. The 13 of November, the day before I turned 27 I found out that my WBC count was critically high. It was 116,000. The normal is 5,000-10,000. By the 11/26 I knew what it was. Treatment started the beginning of December 100mg of sprycel. I'll have to take it as long as it continues to work I'll be on it forever. How do you deal with this? I'm just overwhelmed by all off this.