I am an 80 year old man and was diagnosed with AML about 2years ago Sep 2023.. Having survived Advanced and aggressive prostate cancer in 2017 this came as a great shock to my wife and I. However after 12 cycles of light touch chemotherapy (I was too old for bone marrow transplant which is the only potential cure); Azacitidine by injection and Venetoclax tablets I am now in complete remission; although with residual MDS. My white, platelets and neutrophils having not returned to normal.
My consultant has now given me a difficult choice. I can either continue the Chemo therapy with eight weeks between cycles; managing the inevitable infections and bleeds, or stop treatment for best quality of life. In either case the AML will almost certainly return at which time it might be difficult (impossible?) to treat.
Anyone on here faced a similar dilemma??
