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Old Tue Apr 9, 2013, 02:17 PM
Scarlett O. Scarlett O. is offline
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Question Accutane and MDS

Thank you all for your replies. To anwer your question, Hopeful, I had a complete thyriodectomy in June 2006 because I had papillary thyroid cancer, but I did not require chemo or radiation. However, I sometimes wonder if the chromosome damage has something to do with the fact that I took accutane. After suffering from low-grade acne for almost 40 years, I finally went on accutane at the age of 53. I was on it for four months and took a total of 4800 mgs. I was told it was a Vitamin A derivative, and I knew it caused birth defects, but I didn't discover until I started researching MDS that accutane was originally used as a chemotherapy drug. i asked my new hematologist about this. She did some research and found that while accutane has been trialed in the treatment of MDS, she could not find any data indicating an association between accutane use and the development of MDS. I still wonder though; I guess I will never know. Thanks again.

Scarlett
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