Acute vs chronic and age - Sharon

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I find it kind of weird that a doctor would make a statement about

someone's particular case seemingly without knowing anything about

that particular case.

Anyway, in very general terms it's true that chronic leukemias are

more common in older people but of course that isn't to say that

someone young can't get a chronic leukemia. We've had people in the

group who were teenagers with CML but if you want to go by

statistics, young people with CML are rare.

The majority of leukemia cases in people under 18 are ALL and the

majority of leukemia cases in people over 60 are CLL. AML and CML

usually effect older people but it's not impossible for anyone in any

age group to get any leukemia.

Tracey

>

> New subject that I thought some of you would be interested in. this

is an

> article I found online about Kenechi Udeze from the Minn, Vikings.

I never

> knew that when you are dx later in life it is Cronic and younger is

not???

> First time I heard that. Anyone know what this dr. is talking

about??

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> Dr. Joe Leach of Park Nicollet Clinic and Methodist Hospital in St.

Louis

> Park said there are dozens of different types of leukemia, which he

> described as cancer of the blood and specifically the bone marrow,

where

> blood is made.

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> " We generally break them into two broad categories: acute or fast-

growing

> leukemias, and chronic or slow-growing leukemias, " Leach

said. " Someone like

> Kenechi Udeze would most likely have acute leukemia just because of

his age

> (24). Chronic leukemias by and large tend to be diseases of older

people, so

> we don't usually see those until people get up in their 40s, 50s

and really

> 60s and above. "

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> Leach described acute leukemia as an " aggressive but curable "

disease,

> requiring intensive chemotherapy treatment and a prolonged hospital

stay.

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> Sharon

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