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Old Sat Mar 11, 2017, 03:57 PM
Neil Cuadra Neil Cuadra is offline
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babyking,

Because you are in good health overall and assuming there was an ideally matched donor, then you might be a candidate for a transplant (possibly a "mini-transplant") if you had a disease that a transplant could cure. But that doesn't seem to be the case.

I'm unclear why you are asking this question. If you are wondering what would happen if you developed leukemia as your brother did, it would be very different circumstances because of your different ages and likely your other health circumstances, so it's hard to make guesses about the treatment.

Leukemia isn't directly hereditary, although there are some known genetic conditions that increase the risk of leukemia. A history of common environmental exposures could be a possible concern, if there's a possibly that your brother's disease resulted from toxic exposures. If I was in your circumstances, I'd want to understand my risk level but I wouldn't worry that there's a proverbial sword hanging over my head.
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