1. Acute lymphocytic leukemia (ALL) : Treatment  (Trust Mark: Doctor-Reviewed)
The goal of treatment is to get the blood counts and the bone marrow back to normal. If this occurs, the cancer is said to be in remission. If you have ALL, you will need chemotherapy. For the first round of chemotherapy, you may need to go to the...• Reviewer: David C. Dugdale, III, MD, Professor of Medicine, Division of General Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Washington School of Medicine; and Yi-Bin Chen, MD, Leukemia/Bone Marrow Transplant Program, Massachusetts General Hospital. Also reviewed by David Zieve, MD, MHA, Medical Director, A.D.A.M., Inc.