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Subtyptes
Allison,
Ask your mom if your dad was diagnosed with one of the following subtypes:
1.) Refractory Anemia (RA)
2.) Refractory Anemia with Ringed Sideroblasts (RARS)
3.) Refractory Anemia with excess blasts (RAEB)
4.) Refractory Anemia with excess blasts in tranformation (RAEB-t)
5.) Chronic myelomonocytic leukemia (CMML)
Then the doctor should have given him a risk factor which is determined by the marrow blasts, karyotype, & cytopenias. He would then get a risk score from those 3 score values. Either low, INT-1, INT-2, or High. If he has chromosome abnormalities that will usually mean he has a secondary diagnosis which means it was probably caused from chemo, radiation or benzene instead of di novo (unknown cause). If it's di novo it is easier to treat than a secondary diagnosis.
Sandy
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Husband 61 DX 2/08 with RARS-INT-1, secondary due to chemo treatments in 1998 for Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma.
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