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The Patient Experience of Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia and Its Treatment: Social Media Review

The Patient Experience of Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia and Its Treatment: Social Media Review

Acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) is an aggressive cancer of the blood and bone marrow that rapidly progresses and affects immature blood cells rather than mature ones [1]. ALL is the most common childhood cancer (ie, in patients under 18 years of age, the median age of diagnosis is 15 years), but it also accounts for approximately 20% of adult leukemias [2,3]. Childhood ALL has a cure rate as high as 90%, but the cure rate for adults is substantially lower, ranging from 20% to 40% [1,3,4].

Rebecca Crawford, Slaven Sikirica, Ross Morrison, Joseph C Cappelleri, Alexander Russell-Smith, Richa Shah, Helen Chadwick, Lynda Doward

JMIR Cancer 2023;9:e39852