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MGUS with Polycythemia Vera (PV)

Blood Cancers & Disorders | Last Active: May 6, 2023 | Replies (38)

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When filling out a health questionnaire, you will now need to check Yes. Multiple myeloma is a blood cancer. With MM, cancerous plasma cells accumulate in the bone marrow and crowd out healthy blood cells. https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/multiple-myeloma/symptoms-causes/syc-20353378

Polycythemia Vera is another blood cancer that allows the marrow to produce too many red blood cells. Polycythemia vera is a type of blood cancer known as myeloproliferative neoplasm (MPN). This is what our Mayo Clinic website has to say about PV https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/polycythemia-vera/symptoms-causes/syc-20355850

So, unfortunately, the answer is yes. But the positive is, its treatable. ☺️

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Question… when one crosses from MGUS to smoldering MM one is also immunocompromised, are we not? For me that was important to know for my own assessment of how much COVID risk I would be willing to take.
Is that correct? Not there and hope not to be but curious.

Does your reply to fishergramma (regarding answering "yes" to a general question about whether we have cancer) also apply to folks like me who are afflicted with PV?