Hi Kelly,
Since many MDS patients get AML MDS sometimes is called preleukemia or smoldering AML. As far as I understand there is only one cure now for MDS and AMK – stem cell transplantation.
I think that all types of chemotherapy for both diseases can decrease WBC:s and platelets during the treatment but the counts will often increase between the treatments. Could they not give you Neupogen for low WBC:s
?
If I was you I should chose Hopkins
- that is world famous - so I should have doctors that are among the very best. At the ASH Conference in Atlanta Dec 2007 the doctors from Hopkins presented 13 abstracts on MDS/AML.
Take care!
Kind regards
Birgitta
68 yo, Interm-1 MDS dx May 2006, transfusion dependent, Desferal 4 days every 5th week, Neupogen 2 injections/week, asymptomatic