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MDS awareness . . . A Gifted Man
Anyone watch "A Gifted Man" last night? One of the cases was a man who got diagnosed with MDS . . . secondary to lymphoma, intermediate 2. I assume the story line is in conjunction with AA/MDS awareness week coming up and that it will continue next week, but I don't know. Really not much information in the episode . . . the patient went into the clinic with an infection in his arm and was in the hospital with an MDS diagnosis by the end of the day. Did mention probable transformation to AML. No mention of BMB . . . guess things just have to move faster on TV 
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hubby 73, dx NHL 2001, CNS involvement. SCT (auto) 5/08 [dx UTUC renal pelvis, 2010/surgeries/MMC], MANY recurrences, chemos, surgeries, rad. dx t-MDS 3/11: IPSS 1.5 (Int-2); MDA 11, RCMD trilineage, inc. Fe, ring sideroblasts, 7q del/mono 7 (51.5%), 46,XY,t(6,17)(p22;q25)[4]/45,XY,-7[4]/46,XY[12].
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