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Blood Cancer Types

Types Of Blood Cancer: Leukemia, a type of blood cancer is a disease that attacks mainly children and young adults, hence this is the most commonly found blood cancer variant among children. Although children are more vulnerable to this disease, yet it can also attack young adults. There are many different types of leukemia, but the mostly found disease is myelogenous leukemia. It is found in almost all the patients of leukemia, except for the small number of cases which are acute myeloid leukemia or acute granulocytic. Leukemia has few prominent signs and symbols that make it easier to diagnose. A few of these symptoms are as under : * Fever and infections are the most common and frequent signs of leukemia . * Anemia, shortedness of breath are some more symbols of Leukemia. * Bleeding bruising and appearance of red spots all over the body are more prominent signs of the disease as well. Pain in bones and joints are some other symptoms of leukemia. * General tiredness is another major ...

Leukemia Causes

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  Blood Cancer causes Till now there is no certainty with the reason behind the causes of Leukemia or Blood Cancer except several factors •Radiation There are several analysis of cases of people suffering with leukemia in radiological centres.enerita with radiotherapy lots of typically suffer from leukemia, Leukemia incidence was found in atomic bomb survivors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan. • Leukemogenik Several chemicals like environmental toxins like benzene, industrial chemicals like pesticides, medication used for chemotherapy are identified are reported to own a sway on the frequency of leukemia. • Hereditary In some cases it runs as hereditary disease. • Virus Some kinds of viruses can cause leukemia, like retroviruses, feline leukemia virus, HTLV-1 in adults.

Blood Cancer Myeloma - Types of Myeloma

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Blood Cancer - Types of Myeloma There is really only one main type of myeloma, but in different people, the cancerous plasma cells make different antibodies. Doctors more often call these antibodies ‘immunoglobulins’. In each case of myeloma, only one type of immunoglobulin is overproduced, but this varies from patient to patient. There are 5 basic immunoglobulins – A, G, M, D and E. In myeloma, the commonest one that is overproduced is IgG and the rarest IgE. Controlling your Symptoms : Even if it is not possible to get your myeloma into remission, you can have treatment to help control the symptoms it causes. This may be mild chemotherapy to damp it down. Or you may have radiotherapy to any trouble spots in your bones. Bisphosphonates can also be used to try to slow down the progress of the myeloma. And to reduce the levels of calcium in your blood if this is too high. Your doctor may suggest a treatment called plasma pharesis if the level of abnormal immunoglobulin pro...

Leukemia Diagnosis

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Diagnosis for Leukemia: Leukemia is usually diagnosed with checks like Biopsy, Blood , a CT or CAT scans, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), X-ray, Ultrasound, Spinal faucet / lumbar puncture. Leukemia, Handling Handling cases of leukemia disease generally starts from the symptoms that arise, like anemia, bleeding and infection.Treatments of leukemia are done by a number of ways : • Chemotherapy or intrathecal medications. • Radiation Therapy, which isn’t used. • Bone marrow Transplantation. • Provision of medication and hypodermic tablets. • Transfusion of red blood cells or platelets.

Signs Of Blood Cancer

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Blood Cancer Signs: Some of the common blood cancer sign & symptoms: - A person may be affected with weakness,fatigue,malaise pr sometimes even with breathlessness also. - There can be a minimal body strain which can result in in bone fractures. - Another common factor is resulting of excessive or easy bruising. - It can also be seen if there is bleeding gums or frequent nose bleeds. - Recurrent infections or fever may also be a symptom of blood cancer. - The person may have immense sweating of body during night time. - Sudden weight loss may also result in blood cancer. - A person may have continuation of vomiting sensations. - Anorexia may also be a sign of blood cancer. - The lymph node or gland will enlarge. - For the enlarged abdominal organs,lumps can form or there may be an abdominal distension. - A pain can also occur in the abdominal area,bones and in the back. - A peron will have delirium and he/she will be in a confused state. - Ther...

Leukemia Symptom In Child

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Leukemia Symptom In the lay man’s terms cancer is suposedly a disease that always targets the old. But despite all beliefs, it is an established fact that cancer can attack any person of any age group. Child are no exception to this condition and hence should be especially be taken care. One such type of cancer that is found to be particularly common among child is the blood cancer. Particularly speaking Leukemia. Leukemia is a variety of blood cancer, that attacks the bone marrow, a substance usually found in the long bones of the body and responsible for making blood. The RBC’s, WBC’s, platelets and plasma that comprise blood are all generated in the bone marrow. Once this disease takes it’s grip, the person suffers from abnormally high levels of WBC’s in the blood. The dreadest part of the disease is that the child, mainly below the age of 12 years are the main victims of this disease. Alone in the US, there are about 2500 cases of child leukemia every year, leave alon...

Leukemia Symptoms

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Symptoms of leukemia : Leukemia is a dreaded disease that attacks especially the children and young adults. It is a cancer, that falls in the blood cancer category and affects the blood and bone marrow. This cancer leads to abnormally high counts of white blood cells in the body. There are basically four different types of leukemia. These are : * Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia. * Chronic myelogenous leukemia. * Acute Lymphocytic leukemia. * Acute Myeloid leukemia. Child and adult leukemia are existant with acute lymphocytic leukemia being the most common type of leukemia among children. Although the exact reasons for onset of leukemia are not clear, yet it is believed that exposure to harmful chemicals like – radioactive wastes, chemical wastes and exposure to other types of carcinogens like high tobacco and alcohol.Treatments like chemotherapy and radiation therapy administered to cure other types of cancers in the past Some of the observable symptoms of...