medical update

The recent bloodtest result has been very encouraging - the most important marker m-band has come down to 3.38 and this has been achieved with the addition of Velcade 1.75mg (once in 2 weeks) started in cycle 3 to Revlimid 15mg (3 weeks) and Dexa 12mg (3x a week for 3 weeks). Dexa will be reduced to 8mg for cycle 4. BMD - hip decline possibly due to dexa. Need to increase calcium and potassium intake.

	28/7/10	18/8/10	21/9/10	18/10/10	15/11/10
			cycle 1	cycle 2	cycle 3
M-band g/L	9.84	10.38	6.2	6.43	3.38
IgG	16.2	17.1	11.1	9.78	8.99
(6.5 – 16)
B2M	1606	1593	1628	1235	1430
607-2454
Albumin	42	40	37	38	37
(37 – 51)
WBC	2.71	4.54	4.6	7.03	4.15
(4 – 11)
ANC Neutr	1.2	1.86	2.9	4.35	2.49
K/uL
RBC	4.78	4.34	4.5	4.62	4.52
(3.8 – 5.4)
HGB	14.3	13.0	13.3	13.9	13.8
(11.5 -16)
PLT	399	304	166	144	132
140 – 460
		12/11/08	19/10/09	18/10/10
BMD-hip		T -0.3 Z 0.7	T – 0.1 Z 0.8	T -0.3 Z  0.6
BMD-lumbar		T -0.6 Z 0.5	T 0.0 Z 0.9	T 0.0 Z 1.0