Drug Study Day 21

I am on a study of the new drug CC-4047, with once-weekly dexamethasone. This morning was the third weekly blood draw, results already by fax. Here is a table showing several CBC values on four different dates:

	Mayo	SMG	SMG	SMG
CBC	Mar 3	Mar 14	Mar 21	Mar 28	Minimum
WBC (leukocytes) K/uL	5.6	4.8	5.8	5.3	2.0
NE# (neutrophils) K/uL	3.5	2.1	2.9	2.6	1.0
PLT (platelets) K/uL	211	220	245	232	50
RBC (erythrocytes) K/uL	4.62	4.50	4.28	4.54
HGB (hemoglobin) K/uL	15.4	14.9	14.3	15.0

The top three counts are ones that Mayo is particularly interested in watching, because the CC-4047 trial drug may eventually depress those numbers. If any of those three counts falls below its minimum, the protocol will be changed for me, or, eventually, I could even be dropped from the study.

No problems yet. The three key counts are all down slightly from last week, but still higher than two weeks ago. Red blood count (RBC) was a little low last week, back in range today.

Dexamethasone again tonight.


Recent dinner salad: Organic romaine lettuce with sliced cucumber, blueberries, cashews, blue cheese, corn bread, clementine, organic apple cider vinegar.