Is Bone Marrow Cancer curable?
I believe you’re asking about leukemia. It’s actually a cancer of the cells that create blood cells, or the bone marrow. It isn’t actually the blood cells, themselves, that are cancerous. Cancer of any kind is dangerous – there is no such thing as a good cancer. Leukemia takes lives of children and adults every day but at the same time, there are many survivors that are in remission and doing very well. The most common cancer for children and young people is leukemia, and the most common type of leukemia is called either Acute Lymphocytic Leukemia, or Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia (ALL). How well a patient does depends on so many different factors including age, cell counts, what type and subtype of leukemia he or she has, the will to fight, and so many other factors. A leukemia diagnosis is absolutely not a death sentence. It’s treatable but you have to keep in mind that it does take lives. I know many children and adults that have gone on to live completely normal lives after getting
