If you're in Southern California
One of the premier MDS docs is Ron Paquette at UCLA. E-mail paquette@ucla.edu. You might onsider him for a second opinion. By the way, what your dad's doc has done so far sounds entirely reasonable, he sounds knowledgable and aranesp is a good starting med for a condition that seems to have not progressed far. Stay hopeful. With new meds, many MDS patients live far longer than the old statistics (pre- effective drug days) predicted. 
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Steve Kessler,Age 71, Dx 3/2001, Currently AML converted from MDS, 5q-, 11q23, Negative response to Aranesp, Revlimid. Partial response to Vidaza in the past. On a study using ON1910.NA, counts too low to go to Stanford on schedule.
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