How To Prevent Your Leukemia From Coming Back

How To Prevent Your Leukemia From Coming Back

How can I keep my leukemia from coming back?

The whole goal of therapy for leukemia is to prevent relapse, to prevent this disease from coming back. Truly the best chance of having that happen is somewhat arbitrary or related to therapy. If a disease starts out as relatively resistant to therapy meaning, it's a secondary leukemia, one that's been as a result of prior therapy, this is a disease that may or may not be able to achieve remission and if you do achieve remission, it may be short lived unfortunately. Cases of leukemia which are de novo or primary tend to easily go into remission. The real challenge is to prevent the disease from returning. We sometimes utilize bone marrow transplants, or stem cell transplants in the effort to prevent these diseases from coming back and it depends on the amount of abnormalities, the amount of disease the patient has and their age performance status and basic outlook in terms of their disease, That determines whether or not, and some aspects of whether or not the disease will come back.