Congresswoman Susan W. Brooks (R-IN05) is pleased to announce Carmel residents, Mike and Lee Corr as her guests to the President’s State of the Union Address. Mike Corr, who was diagnosed with hairy cell leukemia in 2002 became a patient in clinical trials at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in 2010. Hairy cell leukemia, which affects over 1,200 individuals annually, is a slow-growing cancer of the blood in which one’s bone marrow makes too many B cells. Hairy cell leukemia is considered a chronic disease because it may never completely disappear. Mike is currently patient #13 in a small clinical study with the National Institutes of Health. After battling hairy cell leukemia for 17 years and joining the NIH study, Mike is now in ongoing remission.
