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