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Snapshots of hope: Life on the other side of transplant.

Bone Marrow Transplant (BMT) & CAR-T Cell Therapy | Last Active: Jun 21 11:30am | Replies (100)
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Local onco keeps messaging with Mayo doc about possibly extending chemo treatments. We don’t understand if they are following a protocol or what basis for more chemotherapy w/o testing.

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Lori, Volunteer Mentor | @loribmt | Jun 17 8:13am

From my experience 5 years ago, I do remember there was some anxiety on the part of my local hemo/oncol when there was a span before the transplant. My doctor thought I’d be having the transplant in May, a month after my last consolidation chemo in April. But it wasn’t until late June and I did require one more consolidation round of chemo in May. This had been ordered by my transplant doctor.
This was based on blood work I had done…the cleaner we go into transplant (without cancer cells) the better the outcome.
I really do understand how anxious you are to get this underway and hope you get some answers soon. Did your transplant team give an answer to the local oncologist about requiring one more round of chemo?

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