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Old Tue Sep 25, 2012, 08:15 PM
mausmish mausmish is offline
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Thank you all. Marlene, the tumor is HPV+ so they don't think it's related to my prior chemo or other predisposing factors for head and neck cancer such as family history or prior smoking. The HPV+ cancers seem to occur independent of other factors. The good news is that HPV cancers generally respond better to treatment than the HPV- counterparts. I'm learning a whole new vocabulary.

So now I'm part of an elite group who has had not one but two rare cancers. Obviously, I'd rather be ordinary! This, too, shall pass. Right now, the difficult part is the waiting.
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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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