Stage Information for Adult ALL

Untreated Adult ALL
Adult ALL in Remission

There is no clear-cut staging system for this disease. This disease is classified as untreated, in remission, or recurrent.

For a newly diagnosed patient with no prior treatment, untreated adult ALL is defined by the following:

• Abnormal white blood cell count and differential.
• Abnormal hematocrit/hemoglobin and platelet counts.
• Abnormal bone marrow with more than 5% blasts.
• Signs and symptoms of the disease.

A patient who has received remission-induction treatment of ALL is in remission if all of the following criteria are met:

• Bone marrow is normocellular with no more than 5% blasts.
• There are no signs or symptoms of the disease.
• There are no signs or symptoms of central nervous system leukemia or other extramedullary infiltration.
• All of the following laboratory values are within normal limits:
  • White blood cell count and differential.
  • Hematocrit/hemoglobin level.
  • Platelet count.