Leukemia
Leukemia popularly known as blood cancer originates in the bone marrow and the lymph system, the two bodies which make blood. In leukemia, these two bodies produce the abnormal and immature white blood cells, which are known as leucocytes. For some people, these two bodies produce many leucocytes which make blood to have a whitish tinge. Here the production of the normal cells and the capacity to fight against the infection decreases.
When the leukemic cells accumulate the production of oxygen- carrying red blood globules, the blood-coagulation cells and the normal leucocytes decrease, which make the capacity lower to fight against the infection. If this is not treated at the right time, leukemic cells can destroy bone marrow, can enter in to blood circulation, and that can affect other parts of the body like the lymph nodes, the spleen, the liver, the brain and the spinal cord. Bone marrow is a sponge like substance present in our bones which makes the three most important types of the cells that a human have in his blood, and these cells are: the white blood cells, the platelets and the red blood cells. Blasts or immature cells which are found in the bone marrow occur only in the cases like leukemia and other cancers. The blasts or immature cells will not develop completely or even worse they could mature but mature in a false manner in the case of lukemia.
There are four types of leukemia namely: acute, chronic, lymphocytic and myelogenous. There is a difference between acute and chronic leukemia because the acute leukemia develops very quickly and chronic leukemia develops very slowly. Acute leukemia is frequently found with the children.
Leukemia has many symptoms but they are not identical to each other. These symptoms are: the weakness or chronic tiredness, fever of unknown origin, the loss of weight which is not due to dieting or exercise, bacterial or viral infections, frequent headaches, skin eruption, nonspecific ortho pain, easy bruise, bleeding of gums or the nose, blood in urine or stool, enlarged lymph nodes or spleen and abdominal plenitude.
The presence of leukemia can be only identified by the doctors by conducting blood tests and examining bone marrow. It is known that leukemia occurs more often in the males than in the females and more often in white people than in the black people, but the cause of leukemia and why this appears with a person, and still is unknown.
The treatment for leukemia implies a series of cancer therapies and prolonged courses of cancer medications. Considering the fact that there is no treatment is presently available for leukemia, the results of the treatments available are unstable. The reaction of the patients to the leukemia treatments and the therapies are strongly based on the age, sex, the type of leukemia, and the promptitude of the medical intervention. The early diagnosis and the prompt treatment increase the possibility of the complete recovery.
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