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?
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Medical Oncology · Riverside Methodist Hospitals/OhioHealth
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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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