 When one's body fails to produce blood cell lines, the morbidity and mortality rate increases.Myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS) is a form of blood cancer found within the bone marrow in which the body no longer produces enough healthy, normal blood cells.MDS are a frequently unrecognized and rare group of bone marrow failure disorders, yet the incidence rate has rose from 143 reported cases in 1973 to approximately 15,000 cases in the United States each year.