how is leukemia cured?!


Question: leukemia is a cancer and i would like to know how it is cured
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It depends on what your definition of cure is, many consider success to be complete remission after 5 years. Also, the success rate of therapies is dependent on the type of leukemia as there are different types.

Leukemia is when the white blood cells in your blood, which are the immune cells, multiply too rapidly and can crowd out other cells and not mature completely. This is treated through the use of chemotherapy which are chemicals that kill cells which rapidly proliferate, making them more deadly to the leukemia cells. These chemicals can also damage your normal cells. The trick is to give you the highest amount of chemicals in the hope of killing as many cancer cells as possible, without causing too much damage to the normal cells. What a bone marrow transplant allows is for you too receive enough chemotherapy to wipe out all of the cells in your bone marrow, where white blood cells (leukemia cells), red blood cells, and platelets are made. This has the highest chance of stopping the cancer, however is deadly without these cells being replaced. The cells are replaced by those from bone marrow of a matched donor. The best case scenario is that the donor cells are not rejected by the recipient, they take up residence in the bones of the recipient and regenerate their blood cells, while all of the cancer cells were destroyed. This is not always sucessful and many patients can die from the disease, often infection, and from adverse effects of the chemotherapy.

Other Answers:
leukemia is a kind of canncer so there is no real cure like if you had a cold
there is only treatments and ways to make the patient more comftubal in their battle
there is kemo
surgrie
and then pain meds
Its treated by the transfer of bone marrow cells from a matching healthy donor. Once in the body, they multiply. Usually Kemo is ordered as well to kill any remaining cancer cells.
there is no cure. a company called Enzymatic Therapy puts out a product called IP-6. research it and buy it

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