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After I am diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia are there any lifestyle factors I can change to improve my survival rate?

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• November 30, 2022

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Learn about lifestyle factors that help improve survival rate after acute myeloid leukemia diagnosis in this HealthTree University lesson by a cancer specialist

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Healthtree contact Joseph Jurcic, MD, Specialist

Joseph Jurcic, MD, Specialist

Columbia University Medical Center

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After I'm diagnosed with AMO, are there any lifestyle factors that I can change to improve my survival rate? So what I would say here is it's important to maintain activity levels as best you can. If you just stay in bed, you're going to get weaker and weaker. So getting out of bed, walking around, even when people are hospitalized, this is so important. And also continuing to maintain good nutrition. Some days as people go through treatment, they're just not going to want to want to eat. And you know, you have to treat your food a little like medicine as you're undergoing this because it's so important just to stay strong. And I would say these are the biggest things somebody can do as they go through therapy to get through it and get through it with less side effects.

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