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Old Sun Apr 11, 2010, 09:27 AM
King Farouk King Farouk is offline
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Originally Posted by Neil Cuadra View Post
Since your dad still has low counts it would still be called bone marrow failure. But from your description the Vidaza treatments sound like a success. That's a huge drop from 27% blasts last October to 4% to 7% now.

It common with Vidaza that counts may get worse temporarily and that the interval between cycles may be longer as treatments continue, to give the body time to recover. So the delay before the 7th cycle isn't surprising and a delay before the 8th cycle might be appropriate too. That doesn't mean that Vidaza has stopped working, but the timetable has to be adjusted to gain the most benefit.

As patients and caregivers it's hard for us to second-guess the doctors but the more questions we ask the more we can understand what they recommend. Please let us know what you learn from this next biopsy.
You have exactly described what the doctors had thought about prior to the seventh cycle particularly when the BMB results showed the lesser counts and in fact the eighth cycle was delayed an additional 5 weeks and was administered with half of the usual dosage. The new BMB hopefully will provide more clues and will post the results once I have them. Thank you all for your interest.
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Farouk, 78 yrs, MDS RAEB-II, complex cytogenetics, Dx Aug/09, treated with Vidaza Sep/09 until present
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