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Jonwc,
A lot of people on here have had "mini". It just means the conditioning regimen before they put the stem cells in is less intensive. The idea is to kill your marrow as best they can so as to get the diseased cells and to avoid relapse and to reduce the strain/shock to the body. I don't know the exact trigger that separates mini from not mini, but a lot of these outcomes that we see come from different people with different subtypes. Some may have really bad chromosomal problems that regardless of what you do puts them at high risk post transplant. CMML is a different disease type and that group seems to do better post BMT than many other disease types.
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