Blood Cancer

Blood cancer
Also known as leukemia
Leukemia or cancer of the blood occurs in the bone marrow because there invade other cells that do not allow manufacture and WBCs.
Its name comes from Greek andmeans "white blood", because the blood of people with the disease has a white or pale pink, due to the high number of abnormal white blood cells that are the cause of cancer.
Leukemia affects allblood cells and bone marrow, but mainly the white blood cells and is characterized by an arrest in the maturation of the cells responsible for the formation of the components of the blood, whileoccurring uncontrolled immature blood cells.
Factors
* Genetic
* Immunodeficiency
* Environmental factors
* Virus
Types of leukemias
* Leukemias linfómicas mainly affect children andmanifest in lymph.
* The myelogenous mainly affecting young adults and seniors.
* The leukemias may be primary or de novo, which is presented without a prior process can be identified thatdetermine its appearance.
* Secondary leukemias, constitute the final stage of other diseases, primarily hematologic myeloproliferative syndromes crisis
Symptoms
* Anemia
* Headaches
*Muscle pain
* Joint pain
* Extreme fatigue and weakness.
* Tachycardia.
* Night sweats.
* Fever
* Loss of weight and appetite.
* Difficulty breathing.
Diagnosis
It isconfirmed by microscopic examination of blood and bone marrow biopsy, to find abnormal cells and determine the type of leukemia in question.
Treatment
Treating cancer with intensive chemotherapy andvarious drug combinations used, sometimes with other oral medications and need to be administered intravenously.
Applying radiation to eliminate any leukemia cells that could evade chemotherapytreatment, because the drug does not cross the barrier used to protect the brain.
In the treatment of chronic leukemia, initially only monitors the sick and perform blood tests and regular marrow biopsies...