Disease-Specific Hashtags for Online Communication About Cancer Care

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Case 3. In 2012, a young adult man with history of Klinefelter syndrome presented with intermittent chest pain and was found to have a 15-cm primary mediastinal NSGCT. He was treated with 4 cycles of VIP followed by resection of residual mediastinal mass, which revealed teratoma. In 2014, he was found to have leukocytosis (WBC, 44 000/L [44.0 10 9 / L]). Bone marrow examination confirmed chronic-phase CML by morphologic characteristics, and a t(9;22)(q34;q11) was identified by chromosome analysis. The patient started treatment with dasatinib and achieved a hematologic response. To date, his BCR/ABL transcript declined appropriately from 55% to 9%. He continues to be in remission for his GCT.