Potential Good News for some AML Patients

Don’t let age bar you from having a blood stem cell transplant

by MARIJKE on December 9th, 2008

According to a press release issued by the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Older Age Doesn’t Affect Survival after Bone Marrow Transplant, if you’re over 65 years old and you have acute myeloid leukemia (AML) or myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS), you could do just as well as younger patients who receive the transplant.

In a new study, researchers looked at 551 patients who had transplants for MDS and 565 for AML. They found that age had no statistically significant impact on transplant-related mortality, relapse, leukemia-free survival or overall survival.

Time From Diagnosis to Treatment Initiation Predicts Survival in Younger, but Not Older, Acute Myeloid Leukemia Patients

Blood. 2009 Jan 1;113(1):28-36, MA Sekeres , P Elson, ME Kalaycio, AS Advani, EA Copelan, S Faderl, HM Kantarjian, E Estey

An extract out of grape kernels can bring about leukemia cells to kill themselves.