May 12, 2011

Disease Of Acute Leukemia (Blood Cancer)

Leukemia generally appear in person since the early formative years, bone marrow without known clearly the cause has been producing white blood cells that evolved is not normal or abnormal. Normally, the white blood cells repeated reproduction me-when the body needs it or is there a place for its own blood cells. The human body will give the sign/signal on a regular basis when blood cells expected to be-reproduction of the back. In the case of Leukemia (blood cancer), white blood cells do not respond to a sign/signal is given. Finally the production of excessive uncontrolled (abnormal) will be out of the bone marrow and can be found in the peripheral blood or of blood banks. The number of white blood cells are abnormal when excessive can interfere with normal cell function, Someone with such a condition (Leukemia) will show some symptoms such as; easily exposed to infectious diseases, anemia and bleeding.
Leukemia (blood cancer) is a type of cancer that attacks white blood cells produced by the bone marrow (bone marrow). Marrow bones or bone marrow in the human body produces three types of blood cells are white blood cells (serves as the durability of the body against infections), red blood cells (function brings oxygen into the body) and platelets (the small blood cells that help the process of blood clotting).
Leukemia, Acute and chronic diseases
Acute Leukemia is marked with a journey of a disease that is very fast, deadly, and deteriorated. If it is not immediately treated, it can cause death in a matter of weeks to the day. While chronic leukemia disease that does not have travel so fast that have longer life expectancy, to more than 1 year.
Leukemia is classified based on the type of cell
When the inspection noted that leukemia affecting lymphocytes or cells of lymphoid cells, then called lymphoblastic leukemia. While the leukemia that affect mieloid cells such as neutrophils, basophils, and eosinophils, called leukemia mielositik.

From this classification, the Leukemia is divided into four type designation;
1. Acute lymphoblastic Leukemia (LLA). It is the most common type of leukemia in children. The disease is also present on the mature adult has mainly 65 years or more.
2. Acute mielositik Leukemia (LMA). This is more common in adults than children. This type was called acute nonlimfositik leukemia.
3. Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia (LLK). This is often suffered by adults aged over 55 years. Sometimes also suffered by young adults, and almost none in children.
4. Chronic mielositik Leukemia (LMK) often occur in adults. It can also occur in children, but very little.
The Cause Of The Disease Leukemia
Until now the cause of the disease leukemia is not yet known for sure, but there are some factors that affect the frequency of occurrence of leukemia is suspected.
1. Radiation. It is supported by some reports of some research that deal with cases of Leukemia that employees more frequently suffer from leukemia, radiology, Patient with radiotherapy more often suffer from leukemia, Leukemia was found on the victim's life events of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan.

2. Leukemogenik. Some chemicals are reported have been identified can affect the frequency of leukemia, such as environmental toxins such as benzene, chemicals industry such as insecticides, drugs used for chemotherapy.

3. Hereditary. People with Down Syndrom have the incidence of acute leukemia 20 times greater than normal people.

4. Virus. Some types of viruses can cause leukemia, such as retroviruses, feline leukemia virus, HTLV-1 on the adult.
Signs and symptoms of the disease Leukemia
Symptoms of Leukemia posed generally differ among sufferers; however in General can be described as follows:
1. Anemia. Sufferers will appeared quickly tired, pale and breathing fast (red blood cells under normal cause oxygen in the body less, as a result the patient breathe rapidly as compensation the fulfillment of the lack of oxygen in the body).

2. Bleeding. When the platelets (cold cell blood) are not producing with reasonable because it is dominated by white blood cells, the sufferer may experience bleeding skin tissue (large water Wiggler red width/small skin tissue).

3. Free from infection. White blood cells act as protector of the durability of the body, especially against infectious diseases. In Leukemia Sufferers, white blood cells that produce are not normal (abnormal) so that it does not function properly. As a result of the body exposed to the virus infection sufferers vulnerable/bacteria, even by itself will dazzle complaints of fever, out of white liquid (runny) nose and coughing.
4. Pain in bones and Joints. This is caused as a result of the bone marrow (bone marrow) urgent solid by white blood cells.
5. Pain in the stomach. Abdominal pain as well