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Help please! is essential thrombocytosis a blood cancer?
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No.: No, but check with your doctor to make sure that's what you really have.
Answered 10/1/2017
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It is a neoplasm: Essential thrombocythemia (et) is part of group of myeloproliferative neoplasm (mpn) - is a clonal disorder. Mpns are predisposed to clonal evolution and disease transformation to myelodysplasia and/or acute leukemia. The propensity to transform into acute myeloid leukemia differs among the subgroups- being the highest for cml- greater than 90% if left untreated and et being the least - about 5%.
Answered 7/11/2020
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