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Blood and blast counts
Hi Debbie,
You know blast cells are immature blood cells and when they increase they tend to take over the space in the bone marrow - there will be less space for maturing blood cells. As you suspect increased blasts often means decreased blood counts.
It is true that the % of blast cells is very important when you decide treatment - perhaps you could get a 4th BMB before you ask for a more aggressive treatment. Too bad that the blasts have increased during Dacogen and tretinion treatment though the blood counts have improved.
Kind regards
Birgitta-A
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