China News Service, October 21st (Reporter Chen Jing) With the aging of the population and the increase in life expectancy, acute leukemia poses challenges to the health of the elderly
Professor Song Xianmin, chairman of theShanghai Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplant Alliance and director of the Department of Hematology, Shanghai Jiaotong University First People’s Hospital, said in an interview with a reporter from Chinanews.
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As a clinician, Song Xianmin said that with age, the incidence of acute leukemia gradually increases
"The elderly patients with acute leukemia are special, and the onset and treatment are more complicated
Song Xianmin told reporters that elderly acute leukemia is generally considered to be incompletely cured by traditional chemotherapy
"Haploid transplantation" means that the transplanted hematopoietic stem cell gene is half identical to that of the patient.
The expert emphasized that the most important thing at present is how to do a good job in the long-term management of patients
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