Experts talk about childhood leukemia

  Male, suffered from lymphocytic leukemia at the age of 2. After 3 years of regular treatment without relapse, he is now carrying his school bag to school. “Leukemia is aplastic anemia, which is difficult to cure”, today, many people hold this view, “In fact, leukemia and aplastic anemia are two completely different diseases, leukemia is a malignant tumor of the hematopoietic system, characterized by abnormal proliferation of blood cells in the hematopoietic tissue. Aplastic anemia, abbreviated as reblastosis, is a condition in which the bone marrow fails in its hematopoietic function due to a variety of causes”.  Before the 1970s, the 5-year survival rate of leukemia was <5%. However, in the last decade, with the progress of molecular biology and biogenetics, as well as the emergence of new therapies and drugs and the use of traditional Chinese medicine, the prognosis of leukemia has been greatly improved, and "leukemia means death" has become a thing of the past. The latest information shows that the recent remission rate of childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia is over 90%, and the cure rate of childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia in China can reach 74.4%, the recent remission rate of promyelocytic leukemia is over 90%, and the survival rate of regular systemic treatment for more than 5 years can also reach 80%.  Dr. Cheng Zhi, director and chief physician of the Department of Hematology of Henan Provincial Hospital, said that after a long period of exploration, we supplemented the combined chemotherapy with traditional Chinese medicine to improve the patient's body condition, reduce the side effects of chemotherapy and improve the efficacy of chemotherapy, and in the maintenance treatment after leukemia remission, we used immune-enhancing and differentiation-promoting traditional Chinese medicine to maintain and consolidate the treatment for residual microscopic lesions, reduce the maintenance amount of chemotherapy drugs, and extend the interval of chemotherapy to reduce the amount of chemotherapy drugs. prolong the chemotherapy interval to achieve long-term disease-free survival or even cure. However, due to social ignorance of leukemia, it is treated as an incurable disease and as a result, cured children are discriminated against in all aspects. What is even more heartbreaking is that most childhood leukemias are curable, but many families in need stop treatment midway due to lack of money, and the risk of relapse is high. It is comforting to know that the country and the government have not forgotten them, and since September 2010, the relief of childhood leukemia in rural areas of Henan Province has been gradually launched in the province.