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Hematologic Malignancies • Medical Oncology • Myelodysplastic Syndromes • Internal Medicine • Hematology
Do you use GCSF for a patient with MDS with excess blasts and neutropenia?
If so, how do you incorporate GCSF into treatment of these patients?
Answer from: Medical Oncologist at Community Practice
It really depends on what you are trying to achieve:
If the goal is to get the patient to a curative allogeneic transplant, then the answer is no.
If the goal is to get an elderly frail patient to break fever and leave the hospital to spend some quality time with family, then the answer is yes!&...
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