Hello. Hope everyone is doing well.
Here is a link of a previous posting if anyone wants to read my dad's story thus far:
http://forums.marrowforums.org/showthread.php?t=2358
Today was a stressful day to say the least. We had been waiting for about a month for the results of this test and we finally got it today...
My dad started his 2nd session of chemo today. He is still staying strong and healthy. He thankfully hasn't felt much side effects from his chemo, which is Vidaza. Thankfully, he didn't need a blood transfusion today! His Hb with down just a little bit from last week (only saw a 0.3 of a drop) and his WBC actually went up from 3.0 to 4.0 within the week.
We met with his doctor today as well. He very briefly went over his cytogenetics test. He simply said that his case is "very complex" and didn't really explain what he meant by that. I later asked for a copy of his results from the nurse...
MLL gene rearrangement was negative
5q deletion was positive in 76% of his nuclei
7q deletion was positive in 76% of his nuclei and 8.5% nuclei were with monosomy #7
I'm not sure what all that means. I know that we ideally would want no chromosome abnormalities, but are these deletions common?
I'm assuming my dad is in the high risk catagory being that he had about 15% blasts in his peripheral blood and 19% in his bone marrow. These chromosomes deletion only hurt the situation even more..
We have a meeting tomorrow with a bone marrow specialist over at Stanford. Hope he is a little more help. I'll be posting tomorrow..
(not sure how i'm feeling right now...)