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Spleen and MDS
Hi Vince,
I am new to the forum. My father has been diagnosed with MDS back in 2008and has been on Dacogen. It has recently stopped working and he is looking for other treatments. His spleen ruptured back in 1983 and was removed due to a medication overload (he was in another country).
A specialist in Oncology and Hematology at Northwestern Hospital here in Chicago mentioned that the spleen produces new blood cells when you are a baby and as you grow to adulthood the bone marrow takes that job over. In patients with MDS where the bone marrow has a hard time reproducing new blood cells, in few cases the body is tricked or shifts to the spleen again, which begins to recreate the blood cells as if you were back in your infant years. These are just a few cases though. I just wanted to share the information with everyone.
-g2 mace
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