[OC] 14 months of blood counts while going through cancer treatment for Acute Myleoid Leukemia. Five months of chemotherapy followed by an allogeneic Bone Marrow Stem Cell Transplant.

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  2. As a physician and someone who likes data. I find this very interesting. Thank you. Good luck. 

  3. Shameless plug, if you’ve sworn off whole blood donation due to dizziness in the days after it (I did), try platelet donation. You keep your volume and nearly all your red cells. I’ve donated about every other week for years. 

    Around half of platelet donations are used for cancers like OP’s. Check out that platelet count tanking in the chart: my (healthy, on the high end of normal) count is usually around 400. Platelet donation takes longer than whole blood, but I just hang out and read a book or watch a movie. Note, slightly different eligibility criteria than whole blood (esp. if you’ve been pregnant before, there’s an antibody produced during some pregnancies that can disqualify you). 

  4. And a more tactical data viz critique: it looks like the X axes aren’t scaled for dates, so values from, say, Oct 1 and 9 could have the same distance between them as Oct 1 and 2, if there’s no data between Oct 1 and 9. So the month of March here is much, much wider than October. 

  5. What’s the deal with the spike in November-February? Is it because of the treatment or is it because of the environment? What kind of treatment did you get?

    I studied T-ALL briefly so I’m ~familiar with some of the treatments that go into that. 

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