There are several common treatments for leukemia patients.
Essentially, leukemia begins in the bone marrow where blood cells are made. Because of that, this cancer can spread quickly throughout the body, eventually affecting other organs like lymph nodes, the spinal cord, the brain or spleen. When leukemia is diagnosed as acute, that means the disease is spreading rapidly.
To learn more about the different types of treatments used to treat acute leukemia, read on.
Radiation Therapy
Radiation therapy is used for two purposes. The first is to actively treat and kill leukemia cancer cells in the spinal fluid and the brain. The second way in which radiation therapy is used is as a prevention method – essentially to prevent the cancer from returning to different parts of the body after chemotherapy. Continue reading ‘Strategies to Counter Acute Leukemia’ »