Essential Thrombocythaemia

  • Diagnosis of ET, was taking chemo pill with no blood test monitoring and now no chemo pill nor monthly blood test.  Is this right and is it dangerous?  Was diagnosed with bone marrow.
  • Hello and thanks for your enquiry,

    I can appreciate your concern but it seems that you need to have a fuller discussion with your clinical care team about this.

    ET does not always need ongoing treatment, and will go through phases of being active and not. Therefore follow up and monitoring will vary, and will be tailored to the current individual's clinical condition.

    There is information about ET on the website of Blood Cancer UK

    I hope this this helps,

    Best wishes,

    Vanda