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Me neither....with AA, there's just not enough to harvest. I know NIH was doing a clinical trial to harvest cells of AA'er who were in remission with normal counts. You could then do an autologous BMT if they relapsed.
Having a supply of John's stem cells on hand back in 2002 would have been helpful in recovering faster from the HiCY treatment. That's the biggest risk with hicy....the length of time it takes for your BM to start producing enough stems to get you out of the danger zone.
Unfortunately, we see so many promising discoveries that go no where.
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Marlene, wife to John DX w/SAA April 2002, Stable partial remission; Treated with High Dose Cytoxan, Johns Hopkins, June 2002. Final phlebotomy 11/2016. As of July 2021 HGB 12.0, WBC 4.70/ANC 3.85, Plts 110K.
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