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Old Wed Dec 22, 2010, 10:50 PM
Flamingo Jim Flamingo Jim is offline
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Interestingly, I am going on a post-transplant clinical trial to see if Decitabine given in six week cycles for up to 8 cycles will prevent relapse of MDS and reduce/eliminate GVHD issues. I have not had any GVHD issues so far and I am up to day 83.

So I guess you can say there are many treatments and clinical trials out there and each center might have a little different protocol. You will probably never be able to say "this is the right treatment" because things are ever changing. In the end, they all may be just as good.

I guess you could take all the major cancer centers and graph the survival rates by treatment type and get some idea of which is better. But even that has so many variables I am not sure in the end you could get an accurate picture
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