You should have a caregiver with you 24 hours a day the first 60 days. I stayed in housing across the street and either walked or took the shuttle every day. Stays were 2-5 hours. Patients are in curtained cubicles and wear masks. You get bloodwork, iv meds, whatever is needed.
Johns Hopkins is doing trials with half matches and cytoxan. Check out their website.
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Karen, age 62, dx MDS RAEB-2 1/8/10: pancytopenia WBC 2.7k/Hgb 7.4/Hct 22.1/Plt 19k; complex cytogenetics -3,del(5)(q14q33),-6,+8,+mar,17% blasts. MUD BMT Johns Hopkins 11/30/10. Dx tongue cancer 8/31/12. ok now. blog mausmarrow.com
Last edited by mausmish : Mon Oct 24, 2011 at 08:16 AM.
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