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Leukemi Well-Known Cancer

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In our world, there are many words that we never want to hear. Cancer happens to be on this horrid list. There is an estimated 7.6 million deaths caused by cancer alone every year. Even though cancer is a dreadful word, it is important to know the facts and that there are many types of cancer, including Leukemia. Leukemia is a very well-known cancer, because of its effect on the human body, and its ability to occur in anyone. Leukemia is a type of cancer where your bone marrow, which produces blood cells, produces abnormal white blood cells. These abnormal cells have a longer life span than normal cells, which die in a cycle. Since they interfere with the cycle, they begin taking up more space, leaving little room for the normal cells to live. …show more content…

The second type is Chronic Myeloid Leukemia (CML), where the bone marrow produces too many white blood cells. This type commonly affects adults and rarely affects children. The third main type is Acute Lymphocytic Leukemia (ALL), where abnormal white blood cells accumulate in the bone marrow. This is the only main type of leukemia that can occur in both children and adults equally. The final type of Leukemia is Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia (CLL), and this is occurs when too many abnormal lymphocytes grow, and it crowds out the normal blood cells making it difficult for the body to fight infection. This type mainly occurs in adults over 55. Leukemia was discovered in 1847 by Dr. Rudolf Virchow, who was a German politician who had very large interests in cell biology, pathology, and anthropology. After its discovery, it was not used as a common disease until February 22, 1970 when it was mentioned in an article by Dr. Lawrence K. Altman. Although this discovery was not mentioned for more than a century, it was still used as a cause of death in many obituaries. Leukemia is one of the most common cancers in the world. There are an estimated 327,520 people living with, or have lived with Leukemia in the US. According to the National …show more content…

Some of these factors are older age, working with certain chemicals, smoking, exposure to high levels of radiation, or prior blood disorders. Also, AML can be caused by failures of regulations in the cell cycle. Hematopoietic precursor cells, or HPCs, enable these cancer cells to go through unlimited numbers of cell cycles and become immune to death. According to the National Cancer Institute, 7 per 100,000 men and women die from Leukemia every year. The relative success rate after 5 years is 58.5%, which means 58.5 out of every 100 people survive after being diagnosed with Leukemia. According to the Leukemia Research Foundation, 67 Americans lose the fight to Leukemia. Also, Leukemia causes more deaths than other cancer among children and youths under 20. There are many types of treatment options for Leukemia, however there is not a set treatment that is preferred to all patients. It just depends on which route the patient is wanting/needing to take. The four main types of treatments are Chemotherapy, Radiation Therapy, and Biological Therapy. Biological Therapy is treatment with substances that affect the immune systems’s response to cancer. Also, patients can partake a Stem Cell Transplantation where high doses of drugs or radiation goes into the bone marrow and destroys all of the cancer cells, plus the normal cells. Later, the patient comes back and is implanted with healthy

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