Former President of the Italian Council Silvio Berlusconi died on Monday June 12, 2023, at the age of 86. He suffered from a rare form of chronic leukaemia.
Silvio Berlusconiold 86 years old, East died Monday, June 12, 2023, confirm our colleagues from RTL. He had been hospitalized in intensive care at the beginning of April in Milan and suffered from a leukemia. Leukemia is a blood cancer which is characterized by a excess white blood cells in the blood. In a statement shared by the HuffPostSilvio Berlusconi’s doctors explained that he was “in intensive care to treat a lung infection” as part of’ “a chronic myelomonocytic leukemia (CMML) from which he has suffered for some time”.
Symptoms wrongly considered “trivial”
This form of leukemia is a disease of the elderly. She would touch 2 to 3 times more often in men than in womenon average around 70 years old, exceptionally before the age of 50. In chronic forms of leukaemia, symptoms appear late, in a less noisy way (asthenia, fever, night sweats, weight loss, anemia…). “In the elderly, especially in case of comorbidities associated, the clinical and biological signs are often considered, wrongly, as trivial and the diagnosis is often delayed, which may explain theexcess mortality observed from first months after diagnosis“confirm Public Health France. THE treatments of CMML consist of the use of erythropoiesis-stimulating agents (EPO) in anemic patients, cytoreductive treatments in patients with proliferative form and hypomethylating agents in severe forms with significant cytopenias and theallogeneic stem cell transplant hematopoietic for the youngest patients. There chronic myelomonocytic leukemia is one of the hematological malignancies whose prognosis is “intermediate”. According to Public Health France, “there net survival standardized to 5 years after the diagnosis (of a CMML, editor’s note) is 45%“.