Acute lymphocytic leukemia
What is acute lymphocytic leukemia (ALL)?
An acute lymphocytic leukemia is also known as acute lymphoblastic leukemia or if you wanting to know a short way to say this cancer well it's also known as ALL.
ALL is a type of cancer that affects the blood and bone marrow. The bone marrow makes white blood cells which are WBC, red blood cells are RBC, and platelets. The white blood cells or the WBC helps it fight against the infection. The RBC carries out oxygen throughout the whole body. The platelets helps with the blood clots. ALL causes the child's body to make too much of the immature or young white blood cells. Theses cells are cancer cells and with that the cells won't be able to fight back the infection as well …show more content…
The untreated is when your doctor has just told you that your child has acute lymphoblastic leukemia. In remission your CBC is normal, you have less than 5% blasts, and you have no signs or symptoms of leukemia in your body. The next phase is minimal residual disease which your ALL will appear to be in remission, but with lab test it will be able to detect the leukemia cells in the bone marrow. Your ALL can most likely relapse and if so then there is going to be needing further treatments for the child. In the phase refractory the leukemia has gone away and is not responding to the treatment. In relapse ALL your symptoms might return, your CBC will become abnormal again, and you will have at least 5% blast and therefore the doctor of the child may need a new treatment plan to bring the child back to remission. Now for the treatments of …show more content…
If the normal doses of chemotherapy don't work or your doctor feels like you need a stem cell transplant to cure your disease, you may get very high doses of chemotherapy. These high doses can damage the stem cells in your bone marrow. Stem cells are the "starter" cells for all types of blood cells. So you may get high-dose chemotherapy (sometimes along with radiation), followed by an infusion of blood stem cells. ion), followed by an infusion of blood stem cells. Most often these cells come from a donor who matches your tissue type, but in some cases the stem cells may be taken from your blood or bone marrow before you get treatment and frozen until you need them. This is called a bone marrow stem cell transplant or peripheral blood stem cell transplant. The next treatment is the targeted therapies. This targets cancerous cells without affecting healthy tissue, unlike radiation and chemotherapy treatments. Some newer drugs specifically target abnormal proteins, such as those caused by the Philadelphia chromosome. Drugs such as imatinib and dasatinib can be helpful in the treatment of ALL that has this chromosome. These drugs are taken daily as
What is acute lymphocytic leukemia (ALL)?
An acute lymphocytic leukemia is also known as acute lymphoblastic leukemia or if you wanting to know a short way to say this cancer well it's also known as ALL.
ALL is a type of cancer that affects the blood and bone marrow. The bone marrow makes white blood cells which are WBC, red blood cells are RBC, and platelets. The white blood cells or the WBC helps it fight against the infection. The RBC carries out oxygen throughout the whole body. The platelets helps with the blood clots. ALL causes the child's body to make too much of the immature or young white blood cells. Theses cells are cancer cells and with that the cells won't be able to fight back the infection as well …show more content…
The untreated is when your doctor has just told you that your child has acute lymphoblastic leukemia. In remission your CBC is normal, you have less than 5% blasts, and you have no signs or symptoms of leukemia in your body. The next phase is minimal residual disease which your ALL will appear to be in remission, but with lab test it will be able to detect the leukemia cells in the bone marrow. Your ALL can most likely relapse and if so then there is going to be needing further treatments for the child. In the phase refractory the leukemia has gone away and is not responding to the treatment. In relapse ALL your symptoms might return, your CBC will become abnormal again, and you will have at least 5% blast and therefore the doctor of the child may need a new treatment plan to bring the child back to remission. Now for the treatments of …show more content…
If the normal doses of chemotherapy don't work or your doctor feels like you need a stem cell transplant to cure your disease, you may get very high doses of chemotherapy. These high doses can damage the stem cells in your bone marrow. Stem cells are the "starter" cells for all types of blood cells. So you may get high-dose chemotherapy (sometimes along with radiation), followed by an infusion of blood stem cells. ion), followed by an infusion of blood stem cells. Most often these cells come from a donor who matches your tissue type, but in some cases the stem cells may be taken from your blood or bone marrow before you get treatment and frozen until you need them. This is called a bone marrow stem cell transplant or peripheral blood stem cell transplant. The next treatment is the targeted therapies. This targets cancerous cells without affecting healthy tissue, unlike radiation and chemotherapy treatments. Some newer drugs specifically target abnormal proteins, such as those caused by the Philadelphia chromosome. Drugs such as imatinib and dasatinib can be helpful in the treatment of ALL that has this chromosome. These drugs are taken daily as