Describe the long term complications of Leukemia?
- mrscmmckim
Survival
The relative five-year survival rate has more than tripled in the past 45 years for patients with leukemia. In 1960-63, when compared to a person without leukemia, a patient had a 14 percent chance of living five years. By 1970-73, the five year relative survival rate had jumped to 22 percent, and in 1995-2001 the overall relative survival rate was 48 percent. The relative survival rates differ by the age of the patient at diagnosis, gender, race and type of leukemia.
During 1995- 2001 relative survival rates overall were:
Acute lymphocytic leukemia (ALL): 64.6 percent overall; 88.4 percent for children under 5
Chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL): 74.2 percent
Acute myelogenous leukemia (AML): 19.8 percent overall; 52 percent for children under 15
Chronic myelogenous leukemia (CML): 39.3 percent
At the present time there are approximately 198,257 people living with leukemia in the United States.
- Todd M
Long term complications really depend on the treatment the patient received for their Leukemia.
My daughter's five year treatment for AML included two Cord Blood Transplants, TBI (total body irradiation), inter-cranial radiation, targeted radiation, chemotherapy, experimental chemotherapy (mylotarg), etc... Because of these treatments she has developed a cataract in one eye (from the targeted radiation), has short term memory problems (radiation), suffered a 25 point drop from gifted to average in her IQ (radiation again) and will be at a greater risk for secondary Cancers for the rest of her life. A big price to pay, but she's one of the lucky ones, she survived.
-- T
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