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Old Tue Nov 22, 2016, 01:15 PM
Sue&Dave Sue&Dave is offline
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Thanks all. Honestly I think the cord blood transplant (so long as you survive to the initial grafting) is an option with less side effects (GVHD). Among the things that got us second guessing our original transplant decision was when we asked the transplant doc what the 100 day survival rate was - she said, 'do you really want to hear that scary number?' and we also consulted with our original MD Anderson doc and he basically said if the donor was a perfect related/unrelated conventional donor it would be easier to support going for transplant directly. In the case of cord, he would favor starting HMA therapy and decide on transplant based on the response. As far as finding a center closer to home, yes there are centers closer but I don't think they are quite as experienced with regard to cord blood as MSK. Plus I'm not sure how many times I can keep moving him from doc to doc.
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