Bone marrow transplant

[alawe]

Hi every one
2 month i used thalidomide but yesterday my dr tell me no thing change
and every time i going to him he look to my Peripheral blood smear and i think he look some thing but he dont tell me nothing!!!!
and then he told me one month later we have prepare to Bone marrow transplant!!!
now i am scare....
it is dangerous for me???
Explicitly please...
and some advice...
thank you very much...

[Birgitta-A]

Hi alawe,
Is it not possible for you to get kopies with all blood and bone marrow results?

Two months with Thalidomide is too short. Then Revlimid - as you know - is a very good drug for patients with the chromosome aberration 5q-. The patients can respond several years.

Perhaps your blast cells have increased?

A Stem Cell Transplantation (SCT) is much more expensive than Revlimid treatment that should be tried first in a patient like you. I wonder how your doctor is thinking.

A SCT is always risky - look at Home in the meny of MarrowForums and search for SCT. You are young and that decreases the risk.
Kind regards
Birgitta-A

[alawe]

Originally Posted by Birgitta-A

Hi alawe,
Is it not possible for you to get kopies with all blood and bone marrow results?

Two months with Thalidomide is too short. Then Revlimid - as you know - is a very good drug for patients with the chromosome aberration 5q-. The patients can respond several years.

Perhaps your blast cells have increased?

A Stem Cell Transplantation (SCT) is much more expensive than Revlimid treatment that should be tried first in a patient like you. I wonder how your doctor is thinking.

A SCT is always risky - look at Home in the meny of MarrowForums and search for SCT. You are young and that decreases the risk.
Kind regards
Birgitta-A

Hi Birgitta-A and thank you...
i have all of my blood result...but the problem is i don't know my dr what see in my blood smear when he look with Microscope .when i look to my result i see nothing but my blood smear may be he see some thing with Microscope.
but i see him note some thing in my file...
(in blood smear i see EO)
What mean EO???
about Revlimid you know my problem in my country does not exist.
Thank you very much my friend

[Birgitta-A]

Hi alawe,
EO is short for eosinophil cells - a kind of WBC that we all have. http://www.healthline.com/health/eos...count-absolute

The interesting observation is if your doctor finds blast cells - immatur cells - in your blood or more than 5% blast cells in your bone marrow.. Ask him that question.
Kind regards
Birgitta-A