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Old Tue Oct 2, 2012, 09:57 PM
cdseibold cdseibold is offline
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Fish vs More genetic typing

Yes, the FISH testing is aimed at the more specific genetic changes that are known to be an issue with bone marrow disease.

But the surprising part of my results is that the FISH does look for the same defect that was found in my gene testing at Mayo. So it is a negative finding in the FISH and a positive finding at Mayo by karotyping.

In my friends hematology book it says that the % frequency of the -12q change is found at a 5% level in MDS. I'm not sure how old this data is. The book doesn't talk about the prognosis of this particular result.
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Carol, age 75, diagnosed with MDS 9/2012, on wait and watch, recently had blood values drop probably due to Arimixdex, values coming back, but still serious fatigue, recent bone marrow text showed only 2% blasts
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