Types of Treatment

The factors that will determine your treatment regimen may include:

• The type of blood cancer
• Your disease's subtype, phase, category and/or stage
• Your cytogenetic analysis results
• Your overall health
• Your symptoms
• Your white cell count
• The cancer cells' location
• Your rate of disease progression
• Whether you've had cancer in the past and subsequent chemotherapy to treat it
• Whether you've had another blood cancer in the past
• Whether the cancer is in your central nervous system
• Whether you have an infection in your bloodstream (systemic infection)
• Whether you're pregnant
• The effect treatment may have on the quality of your life

After considering the above factors, your doctor will recommend one or more of the following treatments:

• Chemotherapy
• Drug therapies
• Biosimilars
• Watch and wait
• Radiation therapy
• Immunotherapy
• Vaccine therapy
• Stem cell transplantation
• Blood transfusion
• Palliative care
• Clinical trials