Treatment Options for Leukemia
There are some treatment options available for leukemia, depending on the form you have, affected areas, progression, overall health, and age. Common treatments include:
– Targeted therapy: This approach uses drugs to target and block abnormalities in cancerous cells to make them die.
– Chemotherapy: This is the main option to treat leukemia. The procedure involves the use of chemicals to get rid of cancerous cells. Your doctor may give you a combination or a single drug, depending on the form of leukemia you have. The drug can be taken orally or injected into a vein.
– Radiation therapy: This treatment uses high-energy beams to kill leukemia cells. It often suggested to prepare for a bone marrow transplant.
– Bone marrow transplant: This procedure helps replace cancerous cells with healthy stem cells to regenerate healthy bone marrow in the body. [10]
