There are many discussions remaining in the world about what is the number one killer in children today, cancer; and acute lymphoblastic leukemia is one of the most common childhood diseases, most likely to occur in children under the age of fifteen. (Leukemia-Lymphoma) Few adults could get acute lymphoblastic leukemia, but the symptoms would be much more difficult to detect than they would be in a child. Although cancer in children is getting to the point where it is becoming rare or healthy may seem that way, one in three hundred and fifty American children will begin to develop symptoms of acute lymphoblastic leukemia just as they reach the age of 21. Even with a high cure rate of all cancer cells, doctors always say they have found the cure for the type of cancer they are dealing with, but they also tell the patient that the cancer may come back. You may wonder whether the cancer should come back if the doctor tells the patient that it is cured. Complete cure rates for cancer in children are only around eighty percent, so there is still a twenty percent chance that the patient could still die. even after the “healing” has occurred. ("Saint Judes Children's Hospital") There are many patients who fall into the eighty percent range, but they still know that there is a possibility that their cancer may or may not return and then death will occur. Many would end up giving up on wanting to experience all the pain and suffering they have already endured, dropping dramatically from eighty to twenty percent in a matter of hours or even minutes. There are approximately 200,000 Americans who have survived any childhood cancer, a… middle of paper… a month. After induction chemotherapy, the next step should be transplant or consolidation chemotherapy, depending on your treatment plans. (Acute lymphoblastic leukemia, marrow) Most people may not know that ALL begins to change with a single cell in the bone marrow. And they are still studying the genetic changes that cause a normal cell to become an ALL cell. (Leukemia-Lymphoma) Works Cited "Acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) - Patient information". National marrow donation program: Be The Match Marrow Registry. National marrow donation program. Network. 16 March 2010. "Leukemia & Lymphoma Society - Acute lymphocytic leukemia". The Leukemia and Lymphoma Society. The Leukemia and Lymphoma Society. Network. March 16. 2010. .