Wednesday 21 May 2014

Leukemia- Its type, symptoms and treatments

Leukemia is a type cancer of the white blood cells, which begin in the bone marrow. In this article we will discuss the types, symptoms treatments and other related topics. This information refers to four types of leukemia; acute lymphocytic leukemia, chronic lymphocytic leukemia, acute myeloid leukemia and chronic myeloid leukemia.

Leukemia’s are grouped in two ways: the type of white blood cell affected lymphoid or myeloid; and how quickly the disease develops and gets worse acute leukemia appears suddenly and grows quickly while chronic leukemia appears gradually and develops slowly over months to years.
Symptoms of leukemia are not very prominent in many people. These Symptoms tend to be mild at first and worsen slowly.
The main symptoms include: tiredness and or anemia the person may have pale complexion, weakness and feel breathlessness, the person may have repeated infections like mouth sores, sore throat, fevers, sweats, and coughing, frequent passing of urine with irritation, infected cuts and scratches, and boils also increased bruising and bleeding.

Some of the other symptoms that are not so common are:  having bone pain, the gums seem to be tender and swollen, the skin develops rashes, and more headaches are visible. Even vision becomes weak, vomiting, enlarged lymph glands, enlarged spleen that may cause pain or discomfort, chest pains.
An initial blood test will show if blast cells are present. A bone marrow biopsy, chest x-ray and lumbar puncture are done to confirm diagnosis and the type of leukemia the cause of acute leukemia is not known, but factors that put some people at higher risk are: exposure to intense radiation. Most people diagnosed with chronic myeloid leukemia have an abnormal   called the Philadelphia chromosome. It has also been linked to exposure to high levels of radiation.
Treatment depends on the type of cancer. Acute develop quickly and need to be treated urgently, typically within 24 hours of diagnosis. Common treatment options are: Acute lymphoblastic leukemia chemotherapy peripheral blood stem cell and bone marrow transplantation, radiotherapy to the head acute myeloid leukemia, chemotherapy, peripheral blood stem cell and bone marrow transplantation. Chronic lymphoblastic watchful waiting radiation therapy chemotherapy with stem cell transplant is being tested in clinical trials, surgery which includes removal of the spleen, monoclonal antibody and therapy. Chronic myeloid leukemia tyrosine kinase inhibitory therapy chemotherapy biologic therapy high dose chemotherapy with stem cell transplant donor lymphocyte infusion surgery which is removal of spleen.

If a person is suffering from such kind of cancer and if he or she requires immediate treatment, then along with other therapies patient can also use  Immunotherapy. As it will help him

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