How do you overcome the most aggressive

How do you overcome the most aggressive “acute lymphocytic leukemia”?

Leukemia, which has long been regarded as an incurable pronoun, has been gradually improving due to the development of various treatments. But did you know that different types of leukemia have different cure rates and prognosis?

How do you overcome the most aggressive 

Leukemia is divided into four types according to where cancer cells are produced and how fast they progress.

Acute lymphocytic leukemia (ALL) is known to be very fast and aggressive. The main symptoms experienced by early acute lymphocytic leukemia patients are bleeding into and out of the skin, such as nosebleeds, bleeding gums, and bruising, or fatigue or weakness.

If you feel something wrong, you should have a blood test at the hospital. If the test confirms a white blood cell or platelet reduction, you should have your doctor examined at a larger hospital.

And if more than 20% of the leukemia cells in the bone marrow is diagnosed as acute lymphocytic leukemia.

Acute lymphocytic leukemia is a disease that progresses very quickly but is fully curable.

Patients with acute lymphocytic leukemia must first receive chemotherapy to reduce leukemia cells to a certain level. Hematopoietic stem cell transplantation is then treated to produce new bone marrow and blood cells.

Reducing leukemia cells through chemotherapy is called "induction".
‘Relevance’ refers to a condition where the leukemia cell rate is lowered to less than 5%.
Remission means that hematopoietic stem cell transplantation is possible.

'Concern' is the key to overcoming acute lymphocytic leukemia.

Successful treatment can increase the likelihood of complete cure.

Acute lymphocytic leukemia usually occurs in children and young people in their 20s and 30s, who have a very good prognosis with nearly 90% cure rate.

Acute lymphocytic leukemia has a very high relapse rate in one in two patients. Relapses also reduce the likelihood of remission, which reduces the likelihood of complete cure. Recently, however, the prognosis has improved significantly for patients with relapse or those who have not responded to cancer treatment.

If only one in four patients with relapse came to remission with conventional chemotherapy, one in two (44%) has recently been able to expect a therapeutic effect.

Lee Seok, a professor of blood at Seoul St. Mary's Hospital, Catholic University of Korea, said, “Acute lymphocytic leukemia can be overcome by hematopoietic stem cell transplantation. However, the new mechanism of treatment has been effective in patients with relapse, and the prognosis of the patients is expected to improve significantly in the future.