There is no standard answer to the question of how long a 65 year old can live with leukemia, the survival period ranges from a few months to a few years, and even long-term survival, patients should be actively treated.
1. Acute leukemia is a kind of malignant tumor, after the disease is not timely treatment, the degree of disease is more serious, the development is more rapid, may be as short as a few months by serious infection and bleeding and life-threatening.
2. If the patient’s leukemia is not the acute type, the development is slower, the patient and actively cooperate with the treatment, the treatment effect is ideal, the survival period can be achieved to prolong, there are several years or even longer. Therapeutic drugs vary according to the cause of the disease, such as chronic lymphocytic leukemia requires oral zebutinib and so on.
65-year-old leukemia patients should be actively treated, if the patient can find suitable bone marrow, physical conditions and other conditions allow, hematopoietic stem cell transplantation can be discretionary, prolonging the survival period.
65-year-old leukemia patients should go to the regular hospital in time, actively cooperate with the doctor’s treatment plan, adhere to the treatment.