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| | Adult Acute Lymphocytic Leukemia |
 | | Lymphocytes are made by the bone marrow and by other organs of the lymph system. | | | Radiation for adult acute lymphocytic leukemia usually comes from a machine outside the body (external radiation therapy). | | | The cancerous lymphocytes can also invade other organs, the spinal cord, the brain, and the testicles. |
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http://www.reddlegg.com/Leukemia/adult_acute_lymphocytic_leukemia.htm
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| | Acute lymphocytic leukemia |
| | Acute lymphocytic leukemia is the most common cancer in children and adolescents. | | | Also called post-remission therapy, this phase of treatment is aimed at destroying the leukemia cells remaining in the brain or spinal cord. | | | If your doctor suspects leukemia, you may be referred to a doctor who specializes in cancer (oncologist) or a doctor who specializes in blood and blood-forming tissues (hematologist) for this procedure. |
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| | ACS :: What is acute lymphocytic leukemia (ALL)? |
| | "Acute" means that the leukemia develops quickly, and if not treated, would probably be fatal in a few months. | | | If the cancer develops from bone marrow lymphocytes, it is called lymphocytic (or lymphoblastic) leukemia. | | | But these cancers that start elsewhere and then spread to the bone marrow are not leukemia. |
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| | s000417c - Acute Lymphocytic Leukemia |
| | Traditionally the therapy of acute leukemia is divided into induction: and post remission therapy. | | | Considerable judgment is necessary in selecting patients for: whom supportive therapy alone is appropriate and recognizing others, up to one third of patients for whom use growth: factors that include erythropoietin, granulocyte or granulocyte monocyte-colony stimulating factors, and thrombopoietin: can be justified. | | | The aim of the induction therapy is to reduce the number of leukemic cells to a: morphologically undetectable level allowing normal hemopoiesis to recover. |
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| | Childhood acute lymphocytic leukemia |
| | Since myelosuppression is an anticipated consequence of both leukemia and its treatment with chemotherapy, it is imperative that patients be closely monitored during induction, consolidation, CNS prophylaxis, and any intensive aspect of maintenance therapy. | | | Clinical trials in pediatric leukemia are designed to compare potentially better therapy with therapy that is currently accepted as standard. | | | The intensity of the therapeutic regimen is based on the prognostic classification of the child's leukemia. |
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| | Acute Lymphocytic Leukemia |
| | The aim of induction therapy, the first phase, is to reduce the body's burden of leukemia cells to undetectable levels. | | | Decades of research show that those who work in the petroleum industry (where benzene is derived) have a two to threefold increased risk of developing leukemia (most often acute myeloid). | | | It is proving to be very beneficial for patients with chronic myeloid leukemia (CML). |
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| | Society : Disease Information - Acute Lymphocytic Leukemia |
| | Thus, the approach to therapy would be intensified in those subsets of patients. | | | Scientists continue to explore possible relationships with life-style or environmental factors but no firm conclusions have yet been reached. | | | Disease Information > Leukemia > Acute Lymphocytic Leukemia |
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| | LEUKEMIA, ACUTE LYMPHOCYTIC |
| | Maintenance therapy is the use of a combination of drugs to prevent the recurrence of leukemia and can last up to 2 years. | | | Follow-up appointments are extremely important after chemotherapy has been started to monitor if complete remission has been achieved or if the leukemia has returned. | | | Leukemia is a cancer of the blood and bone marrow. |
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| | Sloan-Kettering - Acute Lymphocytic Leukemia |
| | Randomized Trial of Two Therapies for Acute Lymphocytic Leukemia Finds Survival Advantage | | | In this section you can find information about our expertise in treating adult patients with ALL, our services, and our research. | | | Radiation therapy is sometimes used for leukemia in the central nervous system or elsewhere and for pain caused by bone destruction. |
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| | Leukemia (Chemotherapy) |
| | To determine the incidence, etiology, and outcome of children with cancer who had AMS, the medical records of all children under 18 years of age with systemic cancer (excluding primary central nervous system tumors) who had AMS in our institution during the years 1981 through 1987 were reviewed. | | | Acute mental status changes in children with systemic cancer. | | | Between 1988 and 1995, 341 children with acute myeloid leukaemia (AML) were treated on the Medical Research Council Acute Myeloid Leukaemia Trial (MRC AML10). |
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| | Gale Encyclopedia of Cancer: Acute lymphocytic leukemia |
| | They are also important in defending the body against pathogens. | | | In acute leukemia, the cancerous cells are immature forms called blasts that cannot properly fight infection; patients become ill in rapid fashion. | | | Death rates in leukemia patients are highest in African-Americans and Caucasians and lowest in Asians. |
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| | Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia (ALL) |
| | Acute lymphocytic leukemia, also called acute lymphoblastic leukemia and acute lymphoid leukemia, is a common leukemia. | | | Because leukemia cells often collect in the spinal cord and brain of ALL patients, chemotherapy drugs are often injected into the space around the spinal cord. | | | In a marrow or blood cell transplant, the patient is first given a pre-transplant treatment of chemotherapy and/or radiation therapy to destroy the patient's leukemia cells and immune system. |
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| | ACS :: Types of Leukemia in Children |
| | Lymphocytic leukemias develop from lymphocytes in the bone marrow. | | | Leukemia can be either fast growing (acute), or slower growing (chronic). | | | ALL (acute lymphocytic leukemia), as noted above, is a cancer of the lymphocyte-forming cells. |
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| | Acute Lymphocytic Leukemia |
| | The symptoms of acute lymphocytic leukemia may resemble other blood disorders or medical problems. | | | The following are the most common symptoms of acute lymphocytic leukemia. | | | Specific treatment for acute lymphocytic leukemia will be determined by your physician based on: |
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| | USATODAY.com - FDA OKs drug for childhood leukemia |
| | The first new leukemia treatment in more than a decade approved specifically for use in children has been cleared by the Food and Drug Administration. | | | The FDA didn't approve the drug use in treating another cancer, acute myelogenous leukemia, because trial results weren't as positive, says Sharon Murphy, director of the Children's Cancer Research Institute at the University of Texas Health Science Center in San Antonio. | | | Seven were healthy enough to have a bone marrow transplant, the only hope for a cure at that stage of the disease. |
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| | Leukemia |
| | This is one page of 7 in this chapter, 228 in this book, and 4645 in the Family Practice Notebook. | | | Ionizing Radiation exposure (risk of CML, AML, ALL) | | | Acute (Proliferating cell fails to mature past blast) |
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