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Hi there
Think of MDS like this...
Imagine your bone marrow as a beautiful lawn....
In Aplastic Anemia: There's a crazed gardener spraying an otherwise healthy lawn with herbicide killing everything. ATG whacks him on the head and Cyclosporine keeps him cuffed to the ground.
In most forms of leukemia: You have giant ugly weeds growing in the middle of the lawn. Pretty dramatic, but in most cases it's easy to target them and leave the lawn alone.
In MDS: You have something like crabgrass. The lawn is kind of weedy, but its harder to treat the MDS "weeds" without hurting the healthy lawn too.
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Ryan Jay: 38-yo, dx SAA: 7/25/10, ATG: 8/10/10. CR with counts still rising. HGB: 13, Plt: 137 WBC 5.1 ANC
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