Treatment of Leukemia

With today's medical advances, acute leukemia treatment was able to get up, the results also showed a very good cure for the sufferer. Handling the symptoms of leukemia is no longer the main goal of treatment, but how to improve the patient's quality of life, prolong life, which is the focus of research. Currently, the treatment of leukemia include the following:

Transplantation of bone marrow

Bone marrow transplantation with high-dose chemotherapy may improve immunity and cleanse the tumor cells and abnormal cells from leukemia patients. Then from hematopoietic cells of the body's own or another person's body transplanted to leukemia patients, leukemia patients had returned to normal hematopoietic system and the recovery of immune function, in order to reach therapeutic goals. Leukemia bone marrow transplant is the most effective treatment, about 50 percent of leukemia patients who have undergone bone marrow transplantation, survival can take long-term.

Chemotherapy

Chemotherapy is a suitable treatment for patients with end-stage leukemia, is very useful to remove the cancer cells in the blood and bone marrow rebuilding to restore normal function of the hematopoietic system. This type of treatment is divided into chemistry: initial chemotherapy, further chemotherapy and intensive consolidation chemotherapy as a treatment in 4 phases. leukemia chemotherapy can effectively reduce symptoms and prolong survival, chemotherapy is also a necessary step prior to bone marrow transplantation.

The method combined east and west

Given the side effects of chemotherapy, which contain toxic and bad for the patient's body, then at an advanced stage leukemia, east and west combined method can greatly help the weak condition of the body which makes the patient easily tolerate the effects of chemotherapy. Chinese medicine is very useful for conservative treatment, has a direct role in improving the quality of life and prolong the survival of leukemia patients

Immunotherapy

Research and development of immunotherapies in recent years much progress, the process of immunization which is DC-CIK can immunize the patient with their own cells, increase endurance, eradicate the cancer cells in the blood, control the growth of cancer cells, inhibits recurrence or spread.