Mutations – second biopsy.

[ask4angels]

Hi! My wife is helping me to write this. I am a 67 year old male. Was diagnosed with MDS single lineage on July 22. I used to work at The Idaho nuclear laboratory where I received too much radiation and I was exposed to chemicals. I am becoming more fatigued and having more pain. They say that my bone marrow is in hyper overdrive. I find out Monday what my mutations are. I was told that if I have one mutation they will be able to tell if I am headed to develop leukemia. If I have another mutation they may be able to put me on a medication to suppress that mutation. And I think the third thing is if I have certain mutations it will indicate the progressiveness of the MDS. I have also been told that if I’m going to have a bone marrow transplant and I have the mutation that’s going to develop into leukemia that I need to have the transplant prior to developing leukemia. Has anyone had a bone marrow transplant? How has your/their body and symptoms been afterwords.

I appreciate any input. My wife and I are very concerned and confused. They have diagnosed me at intermediate. Thanks and happy November First! 🙂 Alan & Patty

[Kevin Benjamin]

How did they diagnose you as intermediate? Was it purely based on your blood work?

[ask4angels]

No, it was based upon the bone marrow biopsy. There were three main factors that they look at. My score ended up being 3.5 which put me at intermediate: Also I have a 7Q deletion! This was done by a transplant doctor and not a hematologist oncologist.

• This reply was modified 4 years, 11 months ago by ask4angels.
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