How many people are diagnosed with Leukemia in the U.S. every year?

Answer 1

53,000 people are diagnosed with lymphoma every year. of those 53,000, only 15% are diagnosed with non-hodgkin's t-cell lymphoma. of that 15%, only 5% are children and of all children diagnosed with non-hodgkin's t-cell lymphoma, 70% are male. despite those odds, my sister was diagnosed with it in 2001, she was 7 years old. i got this here: In the US, childhood Non-Hodgkin's lymphomas make up about 5% of the 53,370 cases of NHL diagnosed each year. http://www.lymphomainfo.net/childhood/nhl.html About 70% of non-Hodgkin lymphoma occurs in boys, and it is about 40% more common in white children than black children. http://www.cancer.org/docroot/CRI/content/CRI_2_4_1x_What_are_the_key_statistics_for_childhood_non_Hodgkins_lymphoma_9.asp Non-Hodgkin's Lymphomas caused by malignant (cancerous) T-Cell lymphocytes represent a smaller subset (about 15% in the US) of the known types of lymphoma… http://www.lymphomainfo.net/nhl/t-cell.html 119 female children in the US per year .00225% chances for female children (please correct math if wrong, 119/53000)

Answer 2

Leukemia is a general term for cancer of the bone marrow and blood, which is characterized by an abnormal accumulation of damaged blood cells in the circulatory system.

There are at least a dozen types of leukemia, but most diagnoses fall into four categories:

# Acute Myelogenous Leukemia (AML) # Acute Lymphocytic Leukemia (ALL) # Chronic Myelogenous Leukemia (CML) # Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia (CLL)

According the the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society, 44,270 adults and 4,220 children were expected to develop leukemia in 2008, which represents approximately 5.0% of all cancer diagnosis in a single year.

Adults are most likely to acquire Acute Myelogenous Leukemia (AML), while children are more likely to develop Acute Lymphocytic Leukemia (ALL). ALL is the most common cancer among children 0-14 years of age, and accounts for 30% of all childhood cancers.

Children with ALL usually respond well to chemotherapy, and most are cured after treatment. The Death Rate for ALL is only 0.4%.

For all forms of leukemia, the five-year survival rate increased from slightly less than 60% in the mid-1970s to approximately 80% today.

Answer 3

90% of men are percieved to survive this disease for one year+, and 82.5% (not age-wise) surviving five years or more. The survival rates for women are near the same, with 91.8% percieved to survive for one year or more and 84% (not age-wise) surviving for at least five years.