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Raeb1
Hi Chirley,
How sad that your MDS has progressed! You are so young that a SCT has a good chance to be successful - even if they do SCTs in older patients young age is still very important for a positive outcome.
Positive that your hematologist now is pushing for the bone marrow transplant co ordinator to speed up the search for a donor. If they don't find anybody you ought to be able to get cord blood - now they often give 2 units because there is not so many stem cells in cord blood as in blood from healthy persons that have been treated with Neupogen or similar drugs.
They have found that the outcome of SCT is better if the ferritin value isn't so high so iron chelation is a good idea.
Kind regards
Birgitta-A
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