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Totally confused about blood and blast counts
My husband had two cycles of decitabine and tretinoin and his counts were improving, the doctor said on 7/13 when she did the follow up BMB that she was expecting good results. I asked her if this was because of the blood counts and she said yes, so when the results of the BMB showed that the blasts had increased to 20% we were taken aback.
Is this typical that they move in the same direction? It appears that blood counts do not matter very much as a measure of the progression of the disease???
Should would ask for a repeat BMB before starting on a more aggressive induction therapy? Seek another opinion?
Any comments would be appreciated, we are waiting for a call back from the doctor.
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Debbie, wife of Mike age 58, diagnosed RAEB 2 April 2010. Initial blast count somewhere between 10-15% then 20% after two treatments of Dacogen. Completed induction therapy 8/2/2010. BMB 8/31/10 - 4% blasts. SCT 10/1/2010. Relapsed in 10/2014, second transplant from same donor on 12/31/2014.
Last edited by Debbie W : Mon Jul 19, 2010 at 12:08 PM.
Reason: spelling and additional comment/question
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