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Questions to Ask Your Health Care Provider About Acute Myelogenous Leukemia
- What are the good and bad prognostic features of my form of leukemia?
- What are the treatment options?
- Which do you recommend and why?
- What side effects should I expect from the treatment?
- What are the chances that the leukemia will return once I am in remission?
- What are the risks and benefits of the different types of post remission therapy?
- Will I need maintenance therapy?
- Will I need bone marrow transplantation, either autologous or allogeneic type?
- What are the side effects of each type?
- What about non myeloablative forms of bone marrow transplantation?
