Thanks Neil !
It has been 14 days after we used Dacogen, all blood counts are still very low, doctors are doing the blood transfusions right now, i have been told to wait at least 6 days.
Thank you for your best wishes ! i hope he will be responded well later !
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Originally Posted by Neil Cuadra
Ti Lee,
From your description they are taking good care of your father. Dacogen and azacitidine work similarly; they are both "hypomethylating agents". Since only Dacogen is available to your father, the choice between them was easy to make. It's too soon to know if the Dacogen treatment will be effective. While you wait for a positive response he may need transfusions to keep his counts out of danger.
Doctors classify MDS as having "excess blasts" (RAEB-1) when the blast count is over 5%, but that's a rather arbitrary cutoff. Having 5.5% blasts is only slightly high, very far from the blast counts (over 20%) that leukemia patients have. That's good news for your father's condition. Good luck with the continued treatment.
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Ti Lee, Father 51 Years old,Dx on October,2012, Low RBC&WBC,blast 6%,RAEB-1,about 10 times Blood Transfusion till now,we are in China
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