Hurray - 4.5 million collected. Enough for 2 transplants.
Now on to SCT next week! Thanks for all the well wishes!!
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EF11 - Who do you know with myeloma?: husband
- When were you/they diagnosed?: November 2014
- Age at diagnosis: 43
Re: Myeloma cells in marrow at harvest for SCT
Sorry I'm a little slow coming back to this interesting discussion after my earlier reply Monday. I've got several shorter comments today.
Jim and Multibilly:
I think we were all saying pretty much the same thing - that the myeloma tumor burden remaining in the bone marrow "swamps" the myeloma tumor burden included with the re-infused stem cells. Jim, your point that the myeloma plasma cells are different than the immature stem cells in the infusion is a good and important point.
BTW, Jim, when I read your "dumb question," I involuntarily cringed a little bit. Where I worked for 30 years, when someone in the audience said they had a "dumb question," that invariably meant they had found a serious flaw in the presenter's logic. So when I saw you use that phrase, I knew your question was anything but a dumb question!
Melpen:
Glad to hear that you did finally engraft and that you are back home now! I hope everything goes smoothly for you with the rest of the SCT recovery and that your lab numbers (when you get them) show that your SCT was a big success.
EF11,
Glad to hear that your husband reached the 4.5 million level in 2 days. And I'm glad to hear that your husband has been participating in a clinical trial. It sounds like an interesting trial. I hope it shows that the meloxicam works. It would be nice to be able to do only 5 days of Neupogen shots instead of the 10 days I needed to do before my SCT. I'm in a clinical trial and am a strong believer in the importance of clinical trials. And, of course, best wishes to your husband during the upcoming SCT itself. Please keep us posted on how things go for him.
Mike
Jim and Multibilly:
I think we were all saying pretty much the same thing - that the myeloma tumor burden remaining in the bone marrow "swamps" the myeloma tumor burden included with the re-infused stem cells. Jim, your point that the myeloma plasma cells are different than the immature stem cells in the infusion is a good and important point.
BTW, Jim, when I read your "dumb question," I involuntarily cringed a little bit. Where I worked for 30 years, when someone in the audience said they had a "dumb question," that invariably meant they had found a serious flaw in the presenter's logic. So when I saw you use that phrase, I knew your question was anything but a dumb question!
Melpen:
Glad to hear that you did finally engraft and that you are back home now! I hope everything goes smoothly for you with the rest of the SCT recovery and that your lab numbers (when you get them) show that your SCT was a big success.
EF11,
Glad to hear that your husband reached the 4.5 million level in 2 days. And I'm glad to hear that your husband has been participating in a clinical trial. It sounds like an interesting trial. I hope it shows that the meloxicam works. It would be nice to be able to do only 5 days of Neupogen shots instead of the 10 days I needed to do before my SCT. I'm in a clinical trial and am a strong believer in the importance of clinical trials. And, of course, best wishes to your husband during the upcoming SCT itself. Please keep us posted on how things go for him.
Mike
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mikeb - Name: mikeb
- Who do you know with myeloma?: self
- When were you/they diagnosed?: 2009 (MGUS at that time)
- Age at diagnosis: 55
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