Treatment for acute leukaemia happens in stages.
The first stage is designed to kill leukaemia cells in your bone marrow and get your blood back to normal. The second stage aims to stop leukaemia coming back.
The exact treatment depends on which type of leukaemia you have, but chemotherapy is usually the main part of the treatment.
And it does take time – treatment usually lasts around four months for acute myeloid leukaemia and up to three years for acute lymphoblastic leukaemia.