A 44-year-old member asked:
about acute myeloid luekemia, can you survive if elderly?
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Dr. William A Biermann answered
46 years experience Medical Oncology
Difficult: It really depends on age and type of aml. Some have better prognosis than others. It also depends on co-morbid status. Patients who evolve from mds also do very poorly.
The issue is does that patient have a good prognosis or bad prognosis aml. If they are a condidate for treament can they tolerate agressive treatment or not.
Most will do poorly unfortunately, especially above 80.
Answered on Aug 2, 2012
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