I'm plotting out a new novel, which is about a boy dying from leukemia and told from the POV of his mother, who is left behind. But I need all the information I can be given about acute lymphoblastic leukemia*. I need to know what the chances are that a seven year old boy (age subject to change, between five and eight) would die from it, and what treatment would be the least likely to work. I've been googling stuff, but the medical journals are terribly vague about how it can end. They mostly talk about treatments.
Would it be better for the little boy to go into remission and then the cancer return? Or should it have progressed so far there's no stopping it?
Also, what are the symptoms of leukemia? Besides the bruising and bleeding, the joint pain etc etc. Would the patient be able to keep any food down? Would the patient have spurts of energy and then be very tired other times?
Basically, I need to know everything you can tell me about leukemia.
links, opinions, basically anything is welcome.
Thanks for your help! xx
*I'm open to any cancer that would be harder to treat, I'm also considering changing it to Hemophilia or Sickle Cell anemia or something like that.
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