Leukemia Treatment

It is known to us that blood cancer another name is Leukemia. There are many ways for leukemia treatment. It depends on your doctor’s suggestion. The doctor first will fined your types of leukemia that has suffered you and then your health condition and your blood cells category. Overall observation, you may get this common treatment:

• Supportive Care:

                           Leukemic patients must be provided with intensive general supportive

                          care. Regular blood transfusion is necessary for leukemia patient. Broad    

                          spectrum antibiotics should be given to control infection. Anti-fungal to   

                          be given to prevent fungal infection.  Personal hygiene should be strictly     

                          maintained.

• Specific Treatment:

             Leukemics are best treated with chemotherapy which is available now.

                         Now-a-days,various chemotherapeutic agents are available,like

                         Doxorubicin, Cytarabin, Etoposide, Cyclophosphamide,
                          Amsacrine,

                         Mitoxantrone, Vincristine, Methotrexate etc.These drugs are used in

                         specific schedule and treatment schedule is divided as remission

                         induction remission consolidation,and remission maintenance.
                         But the drugs are very much immunosuppressive and intensive care
                         is needed  for these patients.

Those are the main leukemia treatment. It is the health care information on leukemia treatment which is very useful for leukemia treatment. The details are given below which provide to patients.

                        Chemotherapy:

                         Chemotherapy is very known suggestion for leukemia patients. It            

                   depends on types of leukemia you have, you can receive single drugs or

                         combination drugs that you need for the leukemia category.

                        Biological Therapy:

                         Biological therapy depend on your leukemia types and it works by

                         helping your immune system recognize and attack the leukemia cells.

                       Targeted Therapy:

                         It is one of the ways for leukemia treatment which drugs attack specific

                         vulnerabilities within your cancer cells. As a example, the drug imatinib

                        (Gleevec) stops the action of a protein within the leukemia cells of people

                         which has chronic myelogenous leukemia. This can help control the   

                         leukemia disease as soon as possible.

                        Radiation Therapy:

                         Radiation  therapy  is  very  quick process to damage leukemia  cells and

                         stop their growth.For  this reason, there use  X-rays or  other high  energy                          beams to  damage it.During the therapy time, a big machine moves

                         around  your body and it detect  your damage cells  and the mean while it

                         attacks your leukemia  cells very  swiftly and softly.It may be  used to       
                         prepare for a  stem cell transplant which is very actively.

Those step for leukemia treatment is verify on the types of leukemia. So every leukemia treatment is same for everyone. Different leukemia patients has different treatment and it is quiet possible when doctor find out his/her leukemia symptoms and take emergency action for him.