Blood, which travels throughout the body, acts like our body guards, collecting health information and issuing various warning signs. Of course, blood can also get sick, what are the specific blood diseases? Is the well-known leukemia still so terrible? Can it be cured?
In this issue, we invite Lan Jianping, chief physician of the Department of Hematology of Zhejiang Provincial People's Hospital, to give you an authoritative interpretation.
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Can arsenic also treat leukemia?
These special drugs bring life to patients
With the rapid development of medical technology, the treatment level of tumor diseases is also improving, among which the treatment of hematological tumors has always been at the forefront of development.
Director Lan said that in addition to traditional chemotherapy and radiotherapy, targeted therapy and immunotherapy have also developed rapidly in recent years.
For some types of leukemia, some special drugs have also been born in clinical practice, such as imatinib tablets, a special drug for chronic leukemia in the movie "I Am Not the God of Medicine".
In view of the acute promyelocytic leukemia with a very high mortality rate in the past, the mainland also took the lead in proposing and applying two special drugs - all-trans retinoic acid and arsenic (commonly known as arsenic), which increased the cure rate of acute promyelocytic leukemia to more than 95%.
Nowadays, the survival rate of patients with hematological tumors has been significantly improved, some patients can be cured, and some patients can control their conditions through treatment to improve their quality of life.
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I have leukemia
She is still back in the ring to win the prize
Leukemia is a neoplastic disease in which the white blood cells in the human body are abnormal, such as special gene mutations that lead to the uncontrolled growth of white blood cells, inhibit normal hematopoietic function, and cause patients to have anemia, fever, bleeding and other adverse symptoms.
Current clinical data show that the 5-year survival rate for childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia has reached 88.7%, the 5-year survival rate for acute myeloid leukemia has reached 74.5%, and the 5-year survival rate for childhood acute promyelocytic leukemia has reached 93.4%.
Acute lymphoblastic leukemia is the most common type of childhood leukemia and can be treated with targeted drugs, immune drugs, hematopoietic stem cell transplantation, etc. Acute promyelocytic leukemia can greatly improve its cure rate by preventing bleeding early.
With the improvement of medical technology, the treatment effect of leukemia has been significantly improved, and the quality of life of patients has also been greatly improved.
The third runner-up in the women's 50m butterfly at the 2023 Hangzhou Asian Games, Japan's Rikako Ikee is also a leukemia patient.
Ikee won six gold medals and two silver medals at the 2018 Asian Games in Jakarta, but after the race, she was diagnosed with acute cell leukemia and had to leave the sports arena for treatment, but fortunately the treatment was good, and she returned to competition in 2020 and proved herself again by finishing third in the women's 50m butterfly at the 2023 Asian Games in Hangzhou.
Director Lan added that after being diagnosed with acute cell leukemia, Ikee Likako first controlled the disease through early chemotherapy, and then underwent hematopoietic stem cell transplantation, which gave a good effect and was finally able to return to the game.
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