Fernando Barroso Duarte, MD, Federal University of Ceara, Clinical Hospital, Fortaleza, Brazil discusses the results of the Latin American Bone Marrow Transplant (LABMT) registry on the impact of treatment prior to allogeneic hematopoietic cell transplantation (HCT) in myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS). This interview was recorded via an online conference call with The Video Journal of Hematological Oncology (VJHemOnc).