Before talking about this issue, let us delineate the scope of senile leukemia that we are going to discuss in this article. The leukemia referred to in this article actually includes not only acute leukemia, acute leukemia transformed by myelodysplastic syndrome, chronic granulocytic leukemia, acute change of chronic granulocytic leukemia, chronic lymphocytic leukemia, but also other malignancies such as senile lymphoma and multiple myeloma.
When we mention chemotherapy, there are two distinct views. On the one hand, positive family members and patients are eager to benefit from chemotherapy to achieve complete remission and blood picture recovery, and are full of hope and confidence in chemotherapy to win, while on the other hand, some patients and family members over-exaggerate the viciousness of the chemotherapy process, demonize chemotherapy, and believe that chemotherapy is certain death, and cannot have any topics or discussions related to chemotherapy.
So, what exactly is the terrible thing about chemotherapy, why so many people are afraid of her, such as talking about the tiger. Chemotherapy, as the name implies, means chemotherapy, so what does chemotherapy refer to? In fact, the so-called chemotherapy is the Western medicine drug therapy, as opposed to physical therapy. Physical therapy includes many familiar methods, such as massage, physiotherapy, etc. Chemotherapy includes all Western medicine treatment, intravenous and oral drugs, because Western medicine is synthesized or extracted and processed, generally has a chemical molecular formula and chemical structure. Therefore, the so-called broad chemotherapy is actually a general term for all western drug treatments. What we usually call chemotherapy actually refers specifically to the treatment of tumors.
People are very afraid of chemotherapy, also because of the unbalanced results reported by TV, movies, and media about chemotherapy with hair loss, weakness, fever, and death. Every treatment has a reason to exist, and chemotherapy is the same, because it can save lives, so chemotherapy is very amazing. The general principle of chemotherapy drugs is to kill tumor cells and restore bone marrow hematopoiesis, but in the early stage of chemotherapy, chemotherapy drugs can kill normal cells while killing tumor cells, so patients are faced with the embarrassment of being attacked by their own bombers airborne in their own position, and it can be fatal. But as the saying goes, you can’t get a tiger’s son without entering a tiger’s lair, and it is also said that putting a patient in a deadly situation gives him the hope of life while putting him in a dangerous situation.
Chemotherapy has many side effects and pushes the patient into the fire, but the patient often has no way back at this time, imagine, there are pursuers, can not retreat, retreat will fall into the hands of the enemy, into the nail plate, splitting boulders, nine deaths, but after you can give you a straight path, I think, most people will eventually choose the hope of life. Chemotherapy is also like this, in fact, the elderly are also retreatable, because the disease late appear transfusion and platelet transfusion, if not chemotherapy, imagine how low the patient’s quality of life, and the disease brings the patient, only endless suffering.
Therefore, for elderly leukemia patients who are eligible for chemotherapy, combined with blood and platelet transfusions, it is still actively recommended that chemotherapy be administered as soon as possible so that the patient’s general condition is still acceptable. But for other patients who do not need blood transfusion, it is possible to see the situation, if the patient’s general condition is still okay, it is possible to choose temporary observation and contact at any time.