July 23, 2009
Symptoms usually occur within a few weeks and the most common are:
- Anemia produces pallor, fatigue, shortness of breath and tachycardia. It can also be a loss of appetite and weight. Is produced by tumor invasion of the bone marrow.
- Sometimes bleeding are caused by the decrease in platelets. They are serious when the number of platelets less than 10,000 per ml, and will not occur if the decline is not very high (50,000 per ml). Cerebral hemorrhage can be a complication in these cases. Although it may appear in any type of leukemia is more common in one form of leukemia, LAM (M3).
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July 23, 2009
The causes, so far, are unknown to the majority of leukemias. Despite this, a known correlation between Epstein Barr virus and a form of acute lymphocytic leukemia, or ionizing radiation and disease.
It is not known why neither the mechanism of normal cells of the blood changes to a production of leukemia cells. What is known is that there is an alteration in cellular level of DNA that makes such a change occurs.
It is known that with increasing the space occupied by the tumor in the marrow, the development of stem cells and their production decline. This makes the occurrence of anemia (lack of red blood cells), a shortage of white blood cells and platelets.
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July 22, 2009
As a student, my sister likes reading a book. She has many books collection. But, she has bad style if she is reading a book. She often taking lie down style and standing on her room with slightly dark lamp. And now, she has complaint of decrease her vision.
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July 20, 2009
Acute leukemia usually occurs in 3-6 patients per 100,000 inhabitants per year.
Acute lymphocytic leukemia is more common in children, being the most common tumor in childhood, is about 25 percent of all cancers in children younger than 15 years. The myeloid affects more adults, with an increasing incidence.
The prognosis for survival is worse with increasing age, are poor from 60 years and is also unfavorable when the diagnosis of acute leukemia in children (especially lymphocytes) occurs in children under 1 to 2 years and the older than 15 years.
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