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Old Sun Feb 26, 2017, 11:22 PM
Catl Catl is offline
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Female to Male Donation

My dad has high risk MDS with excess blast and started Vidaza about a month ago. We met with the transplant clinic last week and they believe he is a candidate for SCT which was great news. We also found out the next day that his 67 yrs old sister is a perfect match! Just wondering if any men on this forum had a female donor? The doctors during the appointment mentioned that they prefer male donors over women, especially those that had children as these women have extra antibodies that men don't have. Apparently there is a higher chance of chronic gvhs with female donors. I wonder if they will try to see if there are any male donor matches in the stem cell banks or if they still prefer female sibling over unrelated donor??
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Catherine, father age 65 diagnosed Jan. 2017 with MDS with excess blasts (MD-EB-2); starting Vidaza on Feb. 6th 2017.
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