baile,
I also went right to transplant (Same Hospital as Robin Roberts - Memorial Sloan Kettering MSKCC)...
The theory is to get you back into remission as quick as possible after diagnosis, find a good match (both of us had 10/10 sibling matches)...
And then do the transplant... MSKCC believes that the sooner after diagnosis you do the transplant, the better the BMT will be (for MDS at least)...
I have met quite a few primary MDS patients, and all of us were diagnosed in April, May & June of this year, and once in remission went right to transplant...
Our outcomes so far have been very good... I'm only at day 50, but things are going quite well for me thus far...
Check out my BMT thread for my story...
http://forums.marrowforums.org/showthread.php?t=3792
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Married, father of three daughters; now 46; diagnosed w/ Major form MDS 6/18/2013; had low counts across the board; Multiple chromosome abnormalities; Finished 2nd round Dacogen 9/13; SCT - Oct. 31, 2013; Sibling match 10/10
; 5.5% blasts down to 3%, now 1% (post BMT)