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I asked the same question. My doctors all say that the tongue cancer is completely unrelated to the leukemia. One oncologist did say that my immune system apparently was not good at coping with chromosome damage. I suppose in that sense you could say there's a correlation. All cancer ultimately goes back to our immune systems not handling attacks on the body properly. My tongue cancer was related to the human papilloma virus (HPV) so probably completely independent of my MDS and treatments.
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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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