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Newly diagnosed with AML (FTL3 TKD)
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Nothing about AML treatment is straight forward, right?! Sorry to hear that you have the additional worries about 12% cancer still present going into transplant. Conditioning chemo is very powerful, so hopefully it will kill all the remaining cancer.
Once your new immune system starts working, it should continue to seek out and kill cancer cells.
I went into my transplant without a trace of cancer, but getting to that point was a rough journey for me. I had to go through induction chemo twice.
I wish you all the best as you start your transplant journey tomorrow! Praying that the transplant will work well and bring healing to your body!
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@jamielynn777 AML can be a formidable, wily adversary that certainly tests our mettle while trying to rid it from our body. @alive summed it up wonderfully with her message of what the intent of the transplant aims to accomplish. https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/1380221/
Your doctors feel that going ahead with the BMT will be your best option at this point. Sometimes particularly challenging mutations no longer respond to standard chemo. They have already circumvented your immune system, tricking it into no longer recognizing the cancer cells as a danger to the body. So they’re able to keep proliferating. Some of those cancer cells can go dormant or may continue to mutate to elude the treatment. Those are the trouble makers! The intent with the new immune system is that it won’t be duped by those rogue cells. ☺️
As @alive mentioned the pre-conditioning chemo is powerful. It also clears the lymph system and essentially wipes the bone marrow clean, hopefully along with the troublesome lingering cancer cells. This pre-conditioning gives the newly engrafted stem cells a squeaky clean environment to set up housekeeping.
We’ll be with you in spirit, Jamielynn, as you start your journey today! Please keep us posted along the way. And I know we’ll check in with you too! Stay strong, stay positive, you’ve got this, girl! Sending a hug!