Lymphoblastic question - Leukemia Message Board

parker9 · 02-08-2003, 05:15 PM

Recently a very dear friend (47 year old male in otherwise good health) was diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukemia.

He has just begun chemotherapy and hopes to find a suitable bone marrow donor. (He has three brothers.) The doctors tell him that he does not have the Philadelphia chromosomal abnormality.

After extensive reading on the net I'm seeing that this disease has a high survival rate in young children and a very low survival rate in patients over 65. However, I have been able to find very little prognosis info for middle aged people with the disorder.

Any advice or tips on where to look for this information would be very much appreciated.

Thanks in advance

Jay Tor · 02-09-2003, 07:40 AM

Hi:

ALL is predominantly a childhood leukemia, that's why most of the literature appears to be about children. We faced a similar problem - our child had AML, which is predominantly an adult leukemia.

As I don't know what you've already read, here's a short list of what I have found to be the most reliable information sources:

National Cancer Institute (NCI) CancerNet Database - Main Index
[url="http://www.meb.uni-bonn.de/cancer.gov/index.html"]http://www.meb.uni-bonn.de/cancer.gov/index.html[/url]

Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia article by Dr. Karen Seiter, MD

If you search the PDQ file, you should find the mortality tables.

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