Things to know about blood cancer

Symptoms of blood cancer are easily confused with flu, common fatigue.

Learn about dangerous blood cancer

1. What is blood cancer?

Blood cancer (also known as leukemia, leukemia) is a malignant form of cancer . When suffering from this disease, leukocytes in the patient's body will increase suddenly. Normally, white blood cells protect the body, however, when the mutation increases, a large number of white blood cells will become "aggressive " and harm us. At that time, white blood cells will be short of 'food ', leading to the phenomenon of ' eating ' red blood cells. This causes the red blood cells to be destroyed gradually, causing anemia to become anemic, leading to death.

This is the only cancer that does not produce tumors (also called tumors). Currently, the cause of the disease has not been completely determined , however, this may be due to genetics or from environmental factors such as chemical pollution, radioactive contamination .

2. Expression of blood cancer

When leukemia (leukemia) develops rapidly in the bone marrow, it causes pain, while also occupying and affecting the development of other normal blood cells. Meanwhile, patients may experience the following symptoms:

1. Fever, colds, headache, joint pain . are the manifestations of the influence of 'breaking' power in the marrow.
2. Lack of red blood cells will make patients tired, weak, and skin become pale, lifeless.
3. Leukocytes do not work normally so patients are susceptible to infection.
4. There are abnormal lymph nodes on the body.
5. The ability of blood clotting to decrease, people with leukemia will be more likely to bleed gums, bruise easily, wounds that are difficult to stop .
6. Anorexia, weight loss, women also experience a lot of perspiration at night.

The symptoms of leukemia are easily confused with symptoms of common fatigue and flu. Therefore, we should not be subjective when the body has the above signs!

3. Treatment method

Blood cancer is mainly treated by replacing bone marrow of patients with bone marrow of a suitable donor. The most suitable people are those who share bloodline with patients. After replacing the damaged bone marrow, it stimulates the production of red blood cells, inhibiting the mutation of white blood cells.

However, the likelihood of successful treatment for leukemia is very low, only about 10%. Even, even when successfully treated, the disease still has a high chance of recurrence.

In addition to bone marrow transplantation method, another treatment method is to use chemotherapy . This approach has a very good prospect for patients with leukemia. For Lymphocytes, radiation therapy of the meninges is prevented, preventing the cell from growing to the brain. Patients treat well and have good resistance, adapt to the environment well, and within 3 - 5 years of treatment can recover completely.

4. How to prevent it

To prevent and limit the risk of blood cancer, the best way, we should protect the body from dangerous factors such as toxic chemicals, radioactive substances . People working in the lips Many of these substances need to strictly adhere to the principle of protection. We should limit as much as possible to those areas that contain these toxic substances (plants that use chemicals, radioactive soils .). In addition, in daily life, when using products such as dishwashing liquid, housewash, cosmetics ., please try to choose products from nature, the more friendly the body, the better. !