Can leukemia be completely cured?

? Congenital leukemia, after which treatment can be cured?

There are many kinds of leukemia, many of which are incurable. The drugs of CML and APL can be controlled. At present, bone marrow transplantation is the cure. Whether bone marrow transplantation can be done depends not only on whether the patient has found a suitable bone marrow source, but also on the individual differences of the patients and whether there will be rejection after operation. Relatively speaking, acute myeloid M3 is the best treatment, but it needs to be found in time.

a

Childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia is one of the few malignant tumors that can be completely cured by chemotherapy. More than 95% of children can get complete remission (that is, clinical symptoms and signs disappear, blood routine is normal, and leukemia cells in bone marrow are less than 5%). Those who have achieved complete remission continue to be treated for about 3 years, and after 5 years of remission, about 80% are still in a disease-free survival state (called disease-free survival rate). The complete remission rate of adult acute lymphoblastic leukemia is about 70%, and the five-year disease-free survival rate is about 30%.

The complete remission rate of acute myeloid leukemia is 60% ~ 70%, the 5-year disease-free survival rate of children is about 30%, and that of adults is about 20%.

b

Most patients can get complete remission after combined chemotherapy, and continue treatment for 2 ~ 3 years after remission. 30% ~ 70% patients are still healthy after 5 years, and quite a few of them may have been cured. In addition, if patients in complete remission can undergo hematopoietic stem cell transplantation, the long-term disease-free survival rate can be further improved and more patients will be cured.

There are three common treatments for leukemia. One is chemotherapy, a method of treating diseases with chemically synthesized drugs. These special drugs can kill tumor cells and are sometimes called cytotoxic drugs.

Secondly, bone marrow transplantation is necessary for a small number of patients with high-risk acute leukemia and chronic myeloid leukemia who relapse or do not respond.

c

Third, Chinese medicine treatment Modern Chinese medicine treatment of leukemia is a relatively new method of treating leukemia, more as an auxiliary treatment. In recent years, with the modernization of traditional Chinese medicine, ginsenoside rh2 has been proved to have the effect of inhibiting leukemia cell apoptosis.