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Treatment After Relapse
Relapse is when cancer returns after remission. Most patients with ALL achieve remission after induction therapy, but in some patients the disease returns.
The following are factors that increase the risk for relapse after initial treatments:
- Microscopic evidence of leukemia after 20 weeks of therapy (minimal disease)
- Age over 30
- A high white blood cell count at the time of diagnosis
- Disease that has spread beyond the bone marrow to other organs
- Certain genetic abnormalities,...
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