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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...

Blood Cancer Symptoms

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Symptoms Of Blood Cancer OR Leukemia Symptoms : Its symptoms can differ among patients. • Anemia. Patients would appear tired, pale and respire fast (below ancient red blood cells inflicting less oxygen among the body, resulting in the patient breathes faster to catch up on the fulfillment of oxygen deficiency among the body). • Bleeding. When the platelets (blood clotting cells) are not reproduced with reasonable number as a results of it’s dominated by white blood cells, then the patient will experience bleeding skin dijaringan (number of red wiggler width / minor dijaringan skin). • Esophageal Infections. White blood cells act as a protecting immunity, significantly against infectious diseases. In Patients with leukemia, white blood cells that diterbentuk is not ancient (abnormal) therefore it does not perform properly. As a result the body of the patient liable to infection virus / bacteria, even by itself would reveal complaints of fever, white discharge from the no...