Patient's question:
How long is the life expectancy for leukemia? What are the chances of recovery? Leukemia can be divided into acute and chronic types. Acute patients have a sudden onset and a short course of the disease. The four major clinical symptoms are skin rashes, anemia, infection (fever), and infiltration (deposition of leukemia cells in various organs, such as enlargement of the liver, spleen, and lymph nodes, bone pain, etc.). Without treatment, the survival period is generally no more than one year. In some cases, from diagnosis to near death, it may only take about a week. The main cause of near death is skin rashes and infection. Chronic patients have a hidden onset and usually show no characteristic symptoms. They are often discovered during a physical examination when the spleen is enlarged or when abnormal blood tests reveal other diseases.Doctor's answer:
Patients with a disease course of less than one year, after appropriate treatment, generally have a life expectancy of 39-47 months, with a 5-year survival rate of 25%-50%. Some chronic lymphocytic leukemia patients can live for 10-20 years, with the causes of death being acute transformation and bone marrow failure. Currently, the main treatment for leukemia is chemotherapy (chemotherapy in full). With the continuous updating of chemotherapy regimens and drugs, their life expectancy has significantly shortened.