Hi @sunny1987. Welcome to Connect where you’ll always have someone to talk with about your cancer journey. So often friends and family don’t know what to say to someone who has been going through cancer treatments. Most of us in the blood cancer group have either experienced this ourselves or have loved ones whom they’ve cared for. We’re comfortable talking openly about treatments, what our experiences have been and to offer support to others going through the same situation.

From my experience with AML and conversations with countless others with this type of leukemia, treatment is generally several months of chemotherapy, not a once and done. We usually have a chemo cycle of 1 week, every 28 days for 2 or more months to bring us to remission. But even then, if there are mutated cells driving the disease, there may be more treatments and a possible bone marrow transplant to keep it from relapsing.

It sounds as though had treatment in December after being diagnosied but then nothing more? To answer your question, it isn’t ‘normal’ to have 2-3% blast cells in peripheral blood. Especially if no blasts were present in your January CBC with differential. What has your oncologist discussed with you about this increase in blasts with the latest blood work?