[SurvivorGirl007]

Hello Everyone,

As some of you may have read on my other post, my 71-year old mom was apparently diagnosed last winter with MDS (she's not told me or my brother, and our dad is pretty clueless, as well - he's the one who pulled out an insurance form to give me her diagnosis and the name of her medication, which is Revlimid). From what I've been reading, I see that Revlimid is used to treat a subset of MDS that is caused by "deletion 5q chromosome." I have two questions for anyone who takes this drug:

Is it used to treat any other subset, or is deletion 5q the only one?

How does deletion 5q affect life expectancy?

Thank you for your help! My dad and I need all the info we can get.