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Blood Cancer

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what is Blood Cancer : Speaking broadly, blood cancer is a cancer that affects the largest connective tissue of the human body. Leukemia is the most common form of blood cancer. This form cancer or Leukemia affects the bone marrow of the body. The bone marrow is the body’s factory where production of red blood cells and white blood cells take place. Leukemia, once it affects the bone marrow, it tends to increase the production rate of white blood cells. There are mainly two forms of leukemia, namely, acute and chronic leukemia. Acute leukemia increases the density of the bone marrow. This prevents the bone marrow from producing healthy blood cells. This type of leukemia is common in children and in young adults. In pediatric cases, this type of cancer is mostly fatal, and should be treated immediately. If left untreated, the malignancy will spread to the other parts of the body and will surely prove to be fatal at a later stage of the disease. Chronic leukemia takes ...

What is RBC And WBC

RBC (Red Blood Corpuscles) : The red blood corpuscles or the RBC are radial disc shaped cells, these cells generally have any nucleus and are meant to simply carry oxygen to the different parts of the body. These cells are red in color and contain a substance called hemoglobin. The existence of this hemoglobin is also the reason for the red color of the RBCs. The RBCs are produced in a region called as the bone marrow. The bone marrow is a spongy substance that is found in the hollow parts of the large bones of the body. The bone marrow produces RBCs round the clock. WBC (White Blood Corpuscles) : The white blood corpuscles or the WBCs are amoeboid structures that are present in the blood to fight infections within the body. These cells attack any foreign component that might enter the blood either while having a transfusion or minor cuts, resulting in some amount of blood loss. These cells are produced in the lymph nodes of the body. These cells that represent the i...

Blood

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What is Blood : Blood is the connective tissue that exists in the form of a liquid in the human body. The blood is made up of three basic types of cells. These are the red blood corpuscles or RBC, the white blood corpuscles or WBC and platelets. Apart from these three main constituents blood also contains plasma. The plasma is nothing but a celluloid matrix that keeps all the components of the blood in a suspended state.

How is Cancer Caused

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Cancer Causes : Cancer is caused due to damage to the structure of DNA that governs the process of cell division. This may have happened as a result of different activities like smoking, working in unhealthy circumstances etc, so that cancer causing agents or Carcinogens have entered into the bloodstream. These carcinogens in turn cause damage or mutation in the DNA of the cell, this damage in turn activates a set of genes called “Oncogenes”. These are responsible for the rapid increase in the process of division, causing cancer.

Types Of Bladder Cancer And Invasiveness Cancer

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There are basically four types of bladder cancer : a. Squamous cell carcinoma. b. Adenocarcinoma. c. Transitional cell carcinoma (or urothelial cell carcinoma) d. Small cell carcinoma. Invasiveness Cancer:- Invasiveness : If the cancerous cell outgrowth remains superficial without penetrating the main muscle layers of the bladder then the cancer is said to be non-invasive type of cancer. Whereas, if the cancerous growth tends to penetrate the inner muscle linings of the bladder then it is called invasive cancer.

Transitional Cell Carcinoma

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Cell Carcinoma : This type of cancer is the most common type of bladder cancer. About 95% of the cases of bladder cancer are infect transitional cell carcinoma. The transitional cell carcinoma is further classified under two groups. These are : A. Flat Carcinoma B. Papillary Carcinoma The former form of transitional cell carcinoma results in slender finger like projections that grow from the wall of the bladder towards it’s center in normal cases. These types of cancer are known as non-invasive papillary cancer. However, in some cases the same can grow inside the deeper layers of the bladder walls. This case is then referred to as the invasive type papillary carcinoma. In very The latter form of transitional cell carcinoma results in flat tumor that grows along the inner lining of the bladder cells.