best cure for ALL (acute lymphoblastic leukemia)?
Is chemotherapy or radiation therapy more effective for treating leukemia in terms of survival rates?
please cite sources with statistics
thank you
- mary m
Good heavens, what a question. This is a Q&A forum, not a research service.
That being said, there may very well be people here who know the sources and statistics off the tops of their heads. I can only report on the general practice at my transplant center.
In ALL it really makes a difference what stage, type and treatment you are dealing with. In stem cell transplant for relapsed or very high risk ALL, total body radiation is the best way to a cure, but I can't cite numbers for you. I believe that radiation is not used much outside of the transplant setting unless it is for central nervous system involvement.
We have had 2 or 3 patients get transplants for relapsed ALL without the recommended radiation and they all had very poor outcomes. However, radiation has some pretty intimidating side effects, so there are no easy choices.
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