My husband was diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia on December 2023 flow cytometry tests that reveal a collection of differently labeled leukemia cells. His oncologist told us the test results at the end of February 2024- two months after knowing about the cytometry results.

The oncologist recommends zero treatment because he has stage 3 kidney disease, red cell blood cancer with a slow decline over six years, and is age 82.

Anyone?? Experience with an elderly person with acute myeloid leukemia, possible treatment? The oncologist is fatalistic, says call hospice. But it's been two months since flow cytometry revealed leukemia cells, and he is doing ok, tired as usual from his red cell cancer, but not rapidly declining.

Any hope for treatment that you know of?