Leukemia-Rehab

﻿Rehab For Leukemia  Rehab for Leukemia can be very long and painful. Since Leukemia is in the blood, you have to destroy all your white blood cells, not only your immature ones. Doctors have to kill off your whole immune system. Because of this, you’re not allowed to have contact with people that may even have something as small as a common cold. Because your immune system is so weak, a common cold could be deadly.

The first thing you go through is Chemotherapy with drugs. It can be taken in pills or injected into the body. They will stay on these drugs until the 100% of the cancer cells are gone. The second thing is Radiation Therapy and Bone Marrow with a Transplant. The radiation therapy continues to keep all the cells in control. Transplant of bone marrow is when it can start to get tricky. By now a person is very weak, lost their hair, and has no immune system. The transfusion of bone marrow is important because the bones in the person’s body are gone. After all of this is done, they will be under supervision of doctors until they are healthy enough to return home. This whole process can last anywhere from 3 months and up.

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