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	Treatment Options for Leukemia

	What is Leukemia?

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Treatment Options for Leukemia

The best treatment for a patient is determined by the physician and depends on the type of Leukemia the patient has, among other factors. Treatment sometimes begins with short-term disease management, followed by treatment that will have a long-term effect. Understanding more about the types of treatments available often encourages a patient to ask more questions about treatment protocols, which leads to the patient being more actively involved in his/her own treatment. The links below will lead you to more information about Leukemia treatment.

The Leukemia Society

Information about treatments such as radiation therapy, chemotherapy, immunotherapy, and stem cell transplant, as well as clinical trials

The National Marrow Donor Program

General treatment topics with links to more information about clinical trials, umbilical cord blood, gleevec, and mini-transplants

National Cancer Institute

Contains information written in two formats, one for patients and one for health care professionals

Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

Information about the treatment of all types of leukemias

Acute Lymphocytic Leukemia (ALL)

Acute Myelogenous Leukemia (AML)

Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia (CLL)

Chronic Myelogenous Leukemia (CML)

Clinical Trials

Dana-Farber/Brigham & Women's Cancer Center

Information about the treatment of all types of leukemias:

Acute Lymphocytic Leukemia (ALL)

Acute Myelogenous Leukemia (AML)

Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia (CLL)

Chronic Myelogenous Leukemia (CML)

Cancer Treatment Centers of America

Information about radiation therapy, chemotherapy, stem cell transplantation, biotherapy & immunotherapy, as well as complementary and alternative medicines.

OncoLink

Basic information about clinical trials.

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