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What should we be sure to ask?
Our 23 yo daughter has a consult with Seattle Cancer Care Alliance (Fred Hutchinson Center) on May 20th about the possibility of a bone marrow transplant for her Severe Aplastic Anemia. She was diagnosed in Oct 2007, had ATG in Dec 2007 and had a complete response. Cyclosporine was tapered over 9 months after 7 months at full dose and she remained at normal blood counts for another 14 months before relapsing last August. Resuming cyclosporine has thankfully recovered her counts and she will graduate from UW this spring.
I have two questions: Does it make sense to consider BMT when her counts are normal, although they appear to be cyclosporine dependent (siblings are not a match but they did identify a match shortly after she was diagnosed)? In order to help us make this decision, what should we be sure to ask the doctor at the consult? We have a full hour of time of a very (I hope) expert resource and I want to make sure that we use it wisely.
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