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Specific cytogenetic alterations in t-MDS and t-AML are associated with different chemotherapeutic agents, such as loss of chromosomal material from #5 and #7 with alkylators. No data have been published on secondary leukemias following the taxane docetaxel. We report a patient, who being in long-term remission after docetaxel-based induction chemotherapy with docetaxel and carboplatin, surgery and adjuvant radiotherapy for non-small cell lung cancer stage IIIB, developed a t-MDS and subsequently a t-AML 40 months after start of therapy. The t-MDS was characterised by a complex aberrant karyotype including monosomy #13 and partial monosomies of #5 and #7. This is the first report in the literature of t-MDS after docetaxel chemo-radiotherapy, implicating a possible association of docetaxel with alkylator type t-MDS and t-AML. The case will be discussed in the context of a review of the current literature.