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Written by Robert A Wilson

Sunday, 11 February 2007

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The overall five-year survival rate has tripled in the past 40 years for patients with leukemia. In 1960, the overall five-year survival rate was 14 percent, by the 1970's it had reached 35 percent and now the overall five-year survival rate is 44 percent.

The survival rates differ by age of the patient and type of disease.

Acute lymphocytic leukemia overall five-year survival is 58 percent
Chronic lymphocytic leukemia overall five-year survival is 71 percent
Acute myelogenous leukemia overall five-year survival is 14 percent
Chronic myelogenous leukemia overall five-year survival is 32 percent
The overall five-year survival rate for children with acute lymphocytic leukemia is 81 percent. The survival rate for children with acute myelogenous leukemia is 43 percent. At the present time there are approximately 144,000 people living with leukemia in the United States.

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