Burkitt lymphoma treatment include surgery, radiation therapy, chemotherapy, and immune system suppressors
Despite its prognosis for long-term survival, despite its fast-increasing rate of growth, still, Burkitt Lymphoma remains one of the best-known, most curable, types of non-Hodgkins lymphoma. More than 85 percent of children with localized disease and more than 90 percent with the extensive disease are successfully cured. Less than five percent of those diagnosed with this type of cancer die from it. This is true not only in the US where the disease has taken a firm position as the number one killer of childhood leukemia but also in several other countries in the West where the disease has become an epidemic. Children who are diagnosed with this type of cancer have to undergo several distinct Burkitt lymphoma treatment options, depending on the stage the disease has reached. At the very beginning, surgery, radiation therapy, chemotherapy, and immune system suppressors are usually used. In advanced cases, bone marrow transplantation is performed, and targeted therapies are used to i