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In 2010, globally, approximately 281,500 people died of leukemia. [78] In 2000, approximately 256,000 children and adults around the world developed a form of leukemia, and 209,000 died from it. [79] This represents about 3% of the almost seven million deaths due to cancer that year, and about 0.35% of all deaths from any cause. [79]
The disease most commonly occurs in people over the age of 65, due to the accumulation of genetic mutations that occur over time. [3] [15] Men are diagnosed around twice as often as women (6.8 to 3.5 ratio). [16] It is much less common in people from Asia. [4] Five-year survival following diagnosis is approximately 83% in the United States. [3]
The five-year survival rate is about 35% in people under 60 years old and 10% in people over 60 years old. [3] Older people whose health is too poor for intensive chemotherapy have a typical survival of five to ten months. [3] It accounts for roughly 1.1% of all cancer cases, and 1.9% of cancer deaths in the United States. [2]
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A Kentucky teen survived leukemia, only to die of COVID-19. Alexa Rose Veit, from an area near Paducah, was just 15 when she became one of the nearly 260,000 people in the U.S. who have succumbed ...
People in pediatric care with ALL in developed countries have a greater than 80% five-year survival rate. It is estimated that 60–80% of adults undergoing induction chemotherapy achieve complete remission after 4 weeks, and those over the age of 70 have a cure rate of 5%. [48] [74]
Acute erythroid leukemia is rare, accounting for only 3–5% of all acute myeloid leukemia cases. [2] One study estimated an occurrence rate of 0.077 cases per 100,000 people each year. [ 12 ] 64–70% of people with this condition are male, and most are elderly, with a median age of 65.
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