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Joe,
Experience with my oncologists indicates if transplant is recommended, stay on Vidaza as long as it is working until donor can be found and other transplant criteria met. If transplant is not an option, stay on Vidaza as long as it continues to work but plan ahead for future - cannot predict when it will stop working, months or years. Watch for new treatments/clinical trials.
Karen
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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
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