Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia Overview

Prognosis

Most individuals afflicted with any form of cancer, including ALL, want to know what their prognosis happens to be. However, there is no clear line on this. A patient's prognosis is completely individual and is based off factors such as how early doctors caught their acute lymphoblastic leukemia, how they respond to treatment, if they are dealing with other health conditions, age, as well as their overall medical history.

Typically, however, patients younger than thirty, those who reach complete remission within four weeks of starting treatment, ones without negative chromosome abnormalities, and those with a white blood cell count less than thirty thousand for B-cell ALL and less than 100 thousand for T-cell ALL, have a better prognosis than acute lymphoblastic leukemia patients who do not share these characteristics.