Prognosis

Prognosis of the ALL patient depends on several parameters. Younger patients have better chances of survival compared to older ones.

Patients with ALL are divided into 3 prognostic groups-

Favorable prognosis group includes:

No adverse cytogenetic abnormalities
Age younger than 30 years
WBC count of less than 30,000/µL
Complete remission within 4 weeks.

Intermediate risk group does not meet the criteria for either good risk or poor risk.

Poor risk group includes:

Adverse cytogenetics [(t9; 22), (4; 11) genetic translocations]
Age older than 60 years
Precursor B-cell WBCs with WBC count greater than 100,000/µL
Failure to achieve complete remission within 4 weeks

Table 1-Correlation between cytogenetic abnormalities and prognosis

Cytogenetic Abnormality	Genes Involved	Event-Free Survival (3 yrs)
t(10;14)(q24;q11)	HOX11/TCRA	75%
6q	Not Known	47%
14q11	TCRA/TCRD	42%
11q23	MLL	18-26%
9p	Not Known	22%
12	TEL	20%
t(1;19)(q23;p13)	PBX1/E2A	20%
t(8;14)(q24;q23) t(2;8)(p12;q24) t(8;22)(q24;q11)	c-myc/IGH IGK/c-myc c-myc/IGL	17%
t(9;22)(q34;q11) Philadelphia chromosome	bcr-abl	5-10%
t(4;11)(q21;q23)	AF4-MLL	0-10%

Table 2. Correlation between Ploidy (Chromosome Number) and Prognosis

Ploidy	Event-Free Survival(3 yrs)
Near tetraploidy	46-56%
Diploidy(Normal karyotype)	34-44%
Hyperdiploidy >50	32-59%
Hyperdiploidy 47-50	21-53%
Pseudodiploidy	12-25%
Hypodiploidy	11%

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hi my daughter , rashmi 5 year old female was admitted in a hospital with the c/o fever,and anemia diagnosed as a ALL ,B CELL,started chemotherapy there at the time of admission her haemoglobin is 4,platelet 10,000,peripheral smear shows blast presnt CSF NEGATIVE BONE MARROW NOT DONE induction chemotherapy started prednisolone oral inj.vincristine i.v 4 doses inj, daunorubicin 3 doses inj.L. asparaginase 8 doses IT ,methotrexate 3 times BONE MARRO DONE 3? BLAST SHOWS phase b inj.cyclophosphamide iv 2 time inj,cytarabine s/c [ arac] 4 days * 4 doses tab .6 mp 60 days IT METHOTREXATE 3 times tab.biotraxate RE INDUCTION PHASE tab.dexamethasone orally inj.vincristine iv 4 doses inj. dnr 4 doses inj.L .asparanginase 4 dose inj.cyclophosphamide 1 dose inj.cytarabine 2 dose it.methotrexate 2 doses BONE MARROW DONE SHOWS 3% BLASTS AND 5%LYMPHS CSF NEGATIVE given tab.6pm for one month review 20/8/2012 please given valuable comments how is the condition and what to do next?

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Non of this has helped me with my research :/ my sister has leukemia and none of the stuff above is even close!!