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Is Essential Thrombocythemia a blood disease or cancer?
Blood Cancers & Disorders | Last Active: Dec 29, 2025 | Replies (150)Comment receiving replies
My hematologist continues to say ET and MF are blood conditions. He said they have been reclassified to blood cancers primarily so they can get more funding for research due them being very rare conditions. And low and behold they are getting more funding to develop new medicines
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That is very interesting. Thank you for sharing.
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My oncologist/hemo says he prefers to call them blood disorders rather than blood cancers. I was diagnosed with ET in April with a JAK 2 mutation, but no HU yet and no symptoms.
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Wow, well thank you kindly for enlightening me. Very interesting indeed. I am a new member here as of yesterday and not sure how to navigate the site as yet so I hope you get this message. Love your username… I am a dancer!