Showing posts with label Septermber Is National Blood Cancer Awareness Mont. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Septermber Is National Blood Cancer Awareness Mont. Show all posts

Wednesday, September 17, 2014

Leukemia or Blood Cancer


Leukemia is a disease that is both frightening and deadly, leukemia is a disease that occurs in the human circulatory system, leukemia or blood cancer is a disorder that occurs due to bone marrow produces abnormal leukocytes, more than is needed by the body, patients with leukemia have a number of common symptoms such as night sweats, fatigue and weakness, headache, easy bleeding, bruising, pain in the bones or joints, swelling or feel uncomfortable, in the abdoment, due to an enlarged spleen, swelling in the neck or armpit, and also can loss of weight.

  The treatment of leukemia is basically done to kill leukemia cells, on this time, the treatment of leukemia can be done in several ways, such as chemotherapy using drugs, biological therapy using interferon or monoclonal antibody, radiation therapy, or also using cell transplantation or stem cell system, leukemia disease or blood cancer is the one of cancer type that many suffered by those who under the age of fifteen years old, leukemia can interfere the functions of human body, it's because fibroblast growth factors/FGFs can insert in the pleiotrophyc heparin-binding growth factors, this FGFs is produced by white blood cells or leukocyte, that can be suffered the function of autikrin and also parakrin, that exist in the bone marrow, and can cause the stimulant from produce the stoking, by stroma and endothellium of FGFs, this FGFs can cause variations of mesodermal and neuroectodermal cells type be chaotic that cause changes on poliferation, movement, and also resistance and difference of cells.

    Leukemia disease can be prevented with the several ways such as more consume of seeds, fruits and vegetables, diet, avoiding cigarettes and alcohol, do the regular of exercise, avoid the carcinogenic substances, detect early, drink the herbal medicine and reduce to consume the chemical medicine.