4-5 Week Break For Stem Cell Harvest
For those that harvested their stem cells and had a 4-6 week break from chemo during the process, did your light chains and M-spike numbers remained the same during this break, or continue to go down or went up slightly before chemo treatments started up again?
My light chains stayed in normal level.
All my numbers stayed about the same.
Good question...
My answer is complicated. I got high dose Cytoxan 3gm/metered squared on (Phone number can only be seen by the question and answer creators). Paraprotein was 1.00 gm/dl. This was after induction. I didn't have a great response. 9-1-17 to 9-13-17 I was in the hospital with sepsis and an abdominal wound. 10-5-17 paraprotein was 1.31. So Cytoxan didn't do much except almost killed me. I was able to do the stem cell harvest in in October. Started Darzalex, Pomalyst and Prednisone on 10-26-17. I had it right up until I was able to get my wound healed. I was finally able to have a transplant Dec 20, 2017. I had Darzalex on 12-13-2017. I didn't really have a break from treatment. My paraprotein was 0.92 going into transplant. It came down some with the Darzalex and Pomalyst. So, I think they were afraid to let me be off treatment
My light chains went up, but not m spike.
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