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I would appreciate some clarity on an important matter. are myelodsyplastic and myeloproliferative disorders pre-malignant conditions or are they malignancies by their very nature even before an acute transformation has occurred?
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They can be but only time will tell. Some genes can be checked as well. Don’t know if they do them down under?
Answered 5/6/2021
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