The disease called Leukemia, also known as "blood cancer", primarily affects the bone marrow, spleen and lymph nodes. Children and the elderly people are the main victims of this cancer and men are more affected than women. In children, it affects 30% of all cancers.
There are various types of leukemia. They are chronic myelogenous leukemia, chronic lymphocytic leukemia, acute myeloid leukemia and acute lymphocytic leukemia. All these types have similar causes, effects and are therefore similar in nature.
[...] Tests such as a myelogram may be resorted to, an analysis of the bone marrow, blood testing in order to detect leukemia, in which case we will see a low red blood cell and platelet and be many precursors of white blood cells (acute leukemia), or many abnormal white blood cells (leukemia chronic). The myelogram will show a lot of precursors of white blood cells for acute leukemia, or white blood cells which mature in large numbers for chronic leukemia. [...]
[...] These main effects are sometimes common, it is most often that large persistent fatigue, irritability, headaches, lack of appetite, rapid satiety (fullness of food and organs) associated with a feeling of abdominal heaviness, anorexia, weight loss, night sweats, spontaneous bruising (effusion formed by the infiltration of blood in the thickness of the skin) or other syndrome like hemorrhagic priapism (defined by a prolonged painful erection that occurs without any sexual stimulation) and sensory disturbances. In 25% of cases, red spots are visible on the skin. [...]
[...] The bone marrow is very difficult to obtain because the donor must be compatible with the patient, and often the donor is a parent or sibling. The sterile bubble prevents any physical contact with other persons. Apart from the pain, there will also be psychological problems that are added frequently. Hence, the patient and his family members should be well-safeguarded against all these effects. b. Financially intensive treatments. The cost for a bone marrow transplant is around 1400 per day of hospitalization, given that the average duration is about one hundred and twenty days, it gives us a treatment cost of about 175,000. [...]
[...] One can also spot the increase of the liver and spleen, and swollen lymph nodes, this phenomenon of lymphadenopathy may occur on the sides of the neck, underarm or the folds of the groin. Like chronic myelogenous leukemia, it does not present visible signs during its beginning, so it is very common that the discovery may take place many years after onset, due to its slow evolution The consequences of acute leukemia It is difficult here to split the consequences of acute myeloid leukemia and lymphoid because they are virtually identical. [...]
[...] Men are slightly more affected than women between forty and fifty years. The first such case was discovered in 1960. A chromosomal abnormality is the cause of this leukemia: a translocation, an exchange of genetic material. This chromosome is found in 95% of chronic myeloid leukemia, yet its role is not yet explained. The Philadelphia chromosome includes modifications of proteins corresponding to both chromosomes involved and engaged and is different to the original trigger and generates the appearance of the disease with abnormal cells. [...]
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