@1pearl

I'm so glad you're doing great!

This is yet another example of why an ET diagnosis is so diabolical.

I hear one thing from my oncologist . . . others hear something else entirely.

Utterly confusing.

To me, what I heard makes sense: manic overproduction of platelets strains bone marrow. With HU, the stress on the bone marrow is reduced.

Without intervention, the bone marrow is depleted. And the success of a bone marrow transplant is far from assured.

How long will it be before MPNs are truly understood? Not in my lifetime, I'll bet.