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Seconding Marlene here, our experience has been that not all hematologists are equally knowledgable.
Deficiencies in the vitamins and minerals she listed can mimic bone marrow disease, so it's important to rule those out first. Your regular family doctor could order those tests.
A bone marrow biopsy, by the way, is a diagnostic tool, it is not treatment. It is actually one of the ways MDS is ruled in or out.
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Catherine, wife of Bruce age 75; diagnosed 6/10/11 with macrocytic anemia, neutropenia and mild thrombocytopenia; BMB suggesting emerging MDS. Copper deficient. Currently receiving procrit and neuopogen injections weekly, B12 dermal cream and injections, Transfusions ~ 5 weeks.
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