Leukemia: What kind of Disease is it and What are the Causes?

Today, we are here again with another type of health issue which is known as ‘Leukemia’. W will discuss about it in every manner to let you people know about it in details.

 LEUKEMIA

Leukemia is the name of a cancer of its type of cancerous cells in bone marrow and blood. It mainly happens when there is a problem with blood cells production, which also affects the white blood cells. It mostly affects the old age groups but easily can be found in age group 15 years.

CAUSES:

When there is some damage in DNA of the babies red blood cells. In this state the cells grow abnormally. As the normal cells die after functioning properly but in this disease there is no proper way of decomposing the cells. Producing more and more cells and not dying the previous ones take a lot of space in the body of the patient. This process takes out the healthy cells from the blood.

TYPES:

Leukemia is classify by the doctors on the basis:

1. Occur in child of an adult
2. Which type of blood cell the abnormal production started
3. They are acute or chronic

Here are some of the types of leukemia.

TREATMENT:

There are some of the options in its treatment which depend upon:

1. The overall health of the victim
2. Age of the person
3. Type of leukemia

The treatments recommended by the doctors to the patients include:

1. Immunotherapy
2. Chemotherapy
3. Targeted therapy
4. Surgery for removing spleen from the body
5. Wait is recommend in slow growing leukemia as example HCL and CLL

Some of its kind can affect the children, one of the main treatments include chemotherapy. Survival rates are increasing in recent years of development.

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