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Momhope,
Has she been on Vidaza? How has she done? That's usually the first treatment choice, with another drug or a transplant as backup plans. So in order to have an opinion about the transplant choice you need to know whether there are other alternatives (staying with Vidaza or switching drugs).
If she's out of other treatment choices and doesn't have stable (livable) blood counts then a transplant does seem to be necessary. The questions for her doctor would then be whether it should be a mini-transplant (one with reduced pre-transplant conditioning) or a full transplant, and how to handle the increased risk from her diabetes, because diabetes can affect a patient's ability to tolerate some treatments.
I suggest that you prepare a list of questions for her next doctor's appointment. I think you need answers like these in order to help guide her, and her doctor is the one who has the facts at hand.
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