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Some facts about leukemia treatment options

Leukemia has two major types: acute and relapse.As a disadvantage of an
chronic. In what concerns acute leukemia, allogeneic bone marrow stem cell
there are two forms: if leukemia involves transplant we can mention the risk of
lymphocytes, we are dealing with acute graft-versus-host disease. This happens
lymphoblastic leukemia, and if it when the other person's bone marrow
involves myeloid cells, is called acute attacks the recipient's body. In this
myelogenous leukemia. Depending on the way, there appears a disease that affects
particular cell that has become the skin, liver and many other organs. In
malignant, there can be many different this case, therapy with immunosuppressive
types of acute lymphoblastic leukemia and drugs is needed.
acute myelogenous leukemia.It was seen When a matched donor is available, there
that chronic leukemia affects primarily can be performed transplantation for
the myeloid cells in the bone marrow. high-risk leukemia patients in first
This is called chronic myelogenous remission. In very high-risk patients,
leukemia, and is found mostly in adults, like those with leukemia who fail to
but children and teenagers can develop it achieve first remission with
too.We must mention that there exists a chemotherapy, there can be done an
disorder of the bone marrow known as unrelated donor transplant as soon as
myelodysplastic syndrome. Often called a remission is achieved. As eligible we can
pre-leukemia syndrome because patients mention infants with leukemia, children
with it have a significantly increased with high-risk lymphoblastic leukemia and
risk of developing leukemia, this children with acute myelogenous leukemia.
syndrome is often associated with low Also, children with myelodysplastic
blood cell counts and increased syndrome are eligible for transplant as
requirements for transfusions. soon as the diagnosis is established.
Allogeneic bone marrow stem cell Many children with acute leukemias whose
transplantation is used to treat a leukemia has relapsed can have bone
variety of childhood leukemias or cancers marrow stem cell transplantation.
and myelodysplastic syndrome that involve Transplantation can be from related
the cells within the bone marrow. In this donors like brothers, sisters, parents,
transplant, there are used another and occasionally more distant relatives
person's bone marrow cells to restore such as cousins and grandparents.Also,
bone marrow after high dose chemotherapy transplantation can be from matched
and radiation therapy.As an advantage of unrelated donors, including umbilical
an allogeneic transplant over an cord blood.In what concerns children with
autologous transplant we can mention the chronic myelogenous leukemia who cannot
"graft-versus-leukemia effect". The be put into complete remission with
donor's healthy bone marrow kills drugs, they should undergo a transplant
residual leukemia cells, and in this way as early as possible in the course of the
decreases the patient's chance of disease.




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