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Suggest Treatment For Essential Thrombocytosis
hi doctor, my platelets was 1.5million, doctors told me it is essential thrombocytosis , started with the medicine hydroxyurea, and my paltelets become 400 thousand then i got some skin rashes and doctors advised to stop the hydroxyurea and started anagralayd after fewmonths they stopped it and started imatinib i took it arround six months there is no improvement then they shifted the medicine to dasatinib150mg daily still my paltelets are 780thousand i done BCR- ABL 3 times It is negative,but the doctors here they are saying i am a cml patient, now they are going to shift the medicine agin to nilotinib. i need your advise in this matter.
Wed, 21 Jan 2015
Hi, dear
I have gone through your question. I can understand your concern.
You have chronic myeloproliferative disorder. It may be essential thrombocytosis or chronic myeloid leukemia. Chemotherapy is the treatment of choice. Bone marrow transplatation is the other option. Imatinib is helpfult in chronic myeloid leukemia. You should go for flow cytometry to the confirm the diagnosisi then you should take treatment accordingly.
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I have gone through your question. I can understand your concern.
You have chronic myeloproliferative disorder. It may be essential thrombocytosis or chronic myeloid leukemia. Chemotherapy is the treatment of choice. Bone marrow transplatation is the other option. Imatinib is helpfult in chronic myeloid leukemia. You should go for flow cytometry to the confirm the diagnosisi then you should take treatment accordingly.
Hope I have answered your question, if you have any doubts then contact me at bit.ly/Drsanghvihardik, I will be happy to answer you.
Thanks for using health care magic.
Wish you a very good health.
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