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Old Sun Jul 6, 2014, 06:05 AM
Birgitta-A Birgitta-A is offline
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MDS

Hi jmajjb,
Good that you have low risk disease !

The difference between MDS and leukemia is the blast cell count in the bone marrow - if we have 20% blast cells or more we have leukemia.

We can't feel that - it is only a way to seperate the diseases.

We can all have so called constitutional symptoms - many of them listed the form sbk007 fills in before seeing the hematologist.

Night sweats, tiredness, weight loss, low grade fever and dizziness are common constitutional (general) symptoms and all kinds of patients have this type of symptoms.
Kind regards
Birgitta-A
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