Cancer Patients Info

Cancer Patients Info

Hello, I am here to talk about the cancer Leukemia, did you know that more than 3,500 children, and 40,800 adults find out that they have this cancer. Unfortunately they don’t know what causes people to get Leukemia, there are a few known risk factors for Leukemia. The risk factors are radiation exposure, certain chemicals, and certain viral infections. Although there are known risk factors, some people never have any of these risk factors, and at this time there is no way that you can prevent the cancer. The way that doctors detect leukemia is by a routine blood test, most people with chronic leukemia may not show any symptoms, now when some has acute leukemia you have symptoms. These symptoms are swollen lymph nodes, fevers, night sweats, frequent infections, feeling weak, tired, bleeding, bruising easily, swelling, discomfort in the abdomen, weight loss for no known reason, pain in the bones or joints. Now remember having these symptoms doesn’t mean that it is caused by the cancer, you should see your doctor to get treated and tested. Other ways that doctor’s diagnosis leukemia is by physical exam, blood test, and a biopsy. When you have leukemia is affects your body pretty hard, it has an effect on your heart, spleen,, and it causes the bone marrow to pretty much stop making white blood cells, red blood cells, and platelets. It causes all your bones in the body to hurt; there are a lot of treatment options. Watchful waiting there are no side effects, chemotherapy does kill the cancer, but it could also kill the normal cells that you have. Targeted therapy can cause skin to become red, dry, and tender, and you can have hair loss. Radiation therapy it can cause infection, and bleeding do to the large amount of chemo or radiation. Stem cell transplant this can cause you get graft-versus-host disease when you get donated stem cells. For a support group you can 1-800-ACS-2345 to find a Road to Recovery near you.

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