Archive for the ‘Leukemia’ Category
Treatment for Leukemia
Leukemia is cancer of white blood cells and their precursors. The word cancer refers to disease in which certain body cells become abnormal and the body produces too large a quantity of these cells. In this case, the abnormal cells are white blood cells and their precursors. Leukemia cells do not function normally and fail to do what normal blood cells do, for example, fighting infection.
When immature blood cells (blasts) are proliferating, ie reproduce uncontrollably in the bone marrow and build up both there and in blood, achieved replacing normal cells, which formed in other conditions, unaltered blood
. This uncontrolled growth is called leukemia.
The cause of this disorder is unknown in most cases. However, it is shown that leukemia is not hereditary or contagious disease, nor has any relation to “scare” or “witchcraft.” Most often occurs in previously healthy children.
Being a proliferation of immature and abnormal cells in the blood, leukemia is considered a “blood cancer”, which could be due to a combination of factors such as radiation, toxic substances, viruses, and others, who are generally unknown, which act together to trigger the condition to which we refer. Read the rest of this entry »