Hi Brad, while it’s not routine to receive more chemo after a SCT it also depends on the situation. AML is a tricky opponent. Even when we’re in remission occasionally a rouge cell or two has managed to hide out and re-emerge. That’s the goal of the new stem cells, to prevent the cancer from gaining a foot hold again.
My thoughts on this with the limited information available, recalling previous messages, your wife’s AML wasn’t able to be treated with conventional chemo so this planned round may be to seek and destroy any remaining blasts which might be lingering?? There are too many open questions to give a firm answer. Has she had a bone marrow biopsy and what were results?

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