Hi Cindy and Chirley,
As far as I understand Neupogen and similar drugs can increase the risk for AML in patients with immunosuppresive therapy for example for AA but not for MDS patients with drugs like Vidaza:
http://www.anemia.org/professionals/...onid=14&topic=
You know Chirley that your neutrophils are very well functioning
- most MDS patients will get infections when they have so low neutrophils as you have. Remember that infections often are life threatening in MDS.
Ron is already having an infection - prostatitis - that is consuming WBCs. When they get low the prostatitis gets worse and the WBCs are decreasing. It is an evil circle.
Here is one of the many sites about neutropenia.
http://cancerinfo.cancer.iu.edu/canc...tropenia.php#6
Kind regards
Birgitta-A
2 injections Neupogen/week since neutropenic fever Sept 2007 with good effect on my WBCs but I am still vary careful because WBCs can't help me if I get virus or fungi. We all have virus and fungi (and bacteria) living for example in the mouth and they can harm us when we get neutropenic.