Leukemia Everyone has heard of cancer. You should also know that you don’t want it. Do you know

According to the American Cancer Society (2013) stated, “Leukemia is a cancer that starts in early blood-forming cells” (American Cancer Society, 2013). “Most often, leukemia is a cancer of the white blood cells, but some leukemias start in other blood cell types” (American Cancer Society, 2013). “Any of the cells from the bone marrow can turn into a leukemia cell” (American Cancer Society, 2013). According to the American Cancer Society (2013) stated, “Once this change takes place, the leukemia cells don’t go through the normal process of maturing” (American Cancer Society, 2013). There are changes that leukemia cells can quickly reproduce themselves and not die when they are suppose too (American Cancer Society, 2013). “They survive and build up in the bone marrow, crowding out normal cells” (American Cancer Society, 2013). “In most cases, the leukemia cells spill into the bloodstream fairly quickly” (American Cancer Society, 2013). “Almost all childhood leukemia is acute leukemias” (American Cancer Society, 2013).

Leukemia is cancerous disease that starts in blood-forming tissue such as the bone marrow and causes large numbers of blood cells to be produced and enter the blood-stream (National Cancer Institute, 2008, para. 1). It is one of many complicated cancer diseases that affect all ages and have very negative outcomes if not treated properly, and on time. Within the disease are several different types that affect according to how quickly the disease develops and attacks the body. It could be classified as chronic leukemia, which has a slow progress of getting worse or acute leukemia which usually gets worse quickly. The types of leukemia also can be grouped based on the white blood cell that is affected (National Cancer Institute , 2008, p. 1).

Leukemia is a type of cancer that sadly causes around 25,000 deaths in the U.S. each year. The area that it affects is the blood and the bone marrow and like most or all of the types of cancer in the world if not taken control of early it will most likely kill you.

Approximately every 3 minutes one person in the U.S. get diagnosed with a blood cancer. One of the blood cancer is leukemia. Leukemia is a dangerous disease that affects people across the whole world. Millions of people are fighting against leukemia right now. Leukemia can ruin someone's life. We need to spread awareness and change this.

After, the doctor gives further treatments to help prevent the return of the signs and symptoms of the disease after an improvement. Most of patient with acute forms of leukemia can be cured today. It is one of the most curable forms of cancer. Chronic leukemia is detected through a routine blood test before symptoms appear. With this people may not need treatment right away if they are not having symptoms yet, the doctors monitor the disease until treatment is needed. Most of the time it cannot be cured, but it can be controlled.

I work in an oncology clinic where we use anticancer treatments like chemotherapy. When a patient is diagnosed with leukemia, the Oncologist usually

Many define Leukemia as cancer of the blood cells. Leukemia begins in the bone marrow and soft tissue inside most bones. Blood cells, including white blood, cells grow and mature in the bone marrow. White blood cells have a very important function, to help your body fight off infection. Leukemia causes bone marrow to produce abnormal white blood cells, known as leukemia cells, which do not provide the same function as normal white blood cells. One difference is that these leukemia cells tend to grow faster than normal cells and over time, leukemia cells can crowding and blockage for normal cells. This blockage can cause pain, swelling and lead to other issues like anemia, bleeding, and infections. Different types of leukemia exist but the disease is grouped by how fast the disease worsens and what type of white blood cell it

The Leukemia and Lymphoma Society provided facts from 2014-2015 with statistical analysis of people that are currently living with leukemia, death rate, and cases. Leukemia wasn’t officially diagnosed until around the mid 1800’s. Nothing was really clarified except for the fact that white blood cells were extremely high in the patients that were being seen. Today it is estimated that around 160,000 people are the US are expected to be diagnosed some form of leukemia. There are nearly 1.2 million people in the US that have or are in remission of leukemia, lymphoma, or myeloma. Lymphoma and myeloma seem to be the most

Rudolf Virchow, a German pathologist in 1856, was the first to use the term leukemia which is taken from the Greek word meaning “white blood” he first described the abnormal excess of white blood cells in patients with the clinical syndrome. Myeloid was first used by Newmann in 1869, he was the first to recognize that white blood cells were made in the bone marrow and not by the spleen as everyone had believed originally. 1889, Wilhelm Ebstein, used the term “acute leukemia” to show the difference between the quick progressive and fatal leukemias to those of chronic leukemias. In 1900, Naegeli was the first person to characterize the myeloblast which is the malignant cell in the AML. He was able to divide the leukemias into two separate categories lymphocytic and myeloid. 2008 was a big year as AML was the first cancer genome which is a haploid set of chromosomes in the gamete or in a multicellular organism to be sequenced fully to extract DNA from leukemic cells where they were able to compare the affected cells with normal cells. They found that leukemic cells had acquired mutation in several of genes that had not previously been associated with acute myeloid

In the human body there is three types of blood cells: white blood cells, red blood cells, and platelets. White blood cells are the cells that help fight the infections that occur in the body, red blood cells carry the oxygen throughout the body, platelets help the blood clot up. These three types of blood cells are created in the bone marrow, the soft tissue inside bones, billions of new bloods cells are created everyday and most of the cells that are produced are red. When an individual has leukemia the body is creating more white blood than what it should and they then do not mature right and the body has trouble getting rid of them making them live longer than their normal lifespan. These abnormal cells are now known as leukemia cells. When the abundance of cancerous cells spread throughout the body it cause problems with vital organs functions such as bleeding, bruising, red blood cells being able to deliver oxygen throughout the body, the body can no longer fight infections as well.

Signs and symptoms differ for the various different kinds of leukemia. But tend to have anemia, leukopenia, neutropenia, thrombocytopenia, which refer to the lacking of red and white bloodcells, neutrophils and platlets. These imbalances in blood composition lead to a plethora of problems. Moreso leukemia tends to include general symptoms of: weakness, fatigue, fever, bone pain, weight loss, night sweats ALL: swelling in abdomen, enlarged lymph nodes, bone or joint pain, enlarged thymus, spread to central nervous system, chest, or rarely skin, eyes, testicles, kidneys, and other organs AML: bleeding and clotting problems, leukostatis (cancer cells which are larger clog blood vessels), spread to skin, gums, and central nervous system CLL: higher risk of infections, autoimmunity resulting in autoimmune hemolytic anemia or rarely keukopenia and thrombocytopenia Childhood: swelling of face and arms, lack

Changing abnormality in the normal structure of a cell and abnormality growth in cells (cell division) called tumor. Tumor can be benign or malignant. Malignant tumor is a cancer that attacks parts of the body and prevents the healthy cells activities. Leukemia is a cancer of the hematopoietic members (blood cell) of the human body. In fact leukemia is the caner of a white blood cell that when bone marrow produce abnormality in white blood cells, or other word Overproduction of white blood cells that causes the immune system to be weakened which lead to a serious problem. Unfortunately, this is a rapid progress which is common in children. “Acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL)is the most frequently diagnosed

Fatigue: Common sign of leukemia. The lack of energy would make the body feel tired all the time.

If a doctor suspects a patient may have cancer, they need to diagnose the patient and determine if cancer is causing the symptom.

There are two types of leukemia in children; acute and chronic. Acute is fast growing leukemia. Within acute leukemia are three categories: acute lymphocytic (lymphoblastic) leukemia (ALL), acute myelogenous leukemia (AML), and hybrid or mixed lineage leukemia. Acute lymphocytic (lymphoblastic) leukemia (ALL) is the most common type of childhood leukemia and develop from early forms of lymphocytes, also known as white blood cells. Specifically, three out of four childhood leukemias are ALL (About Childhood Leukemia). Acute myelogenous leukemia (AML) starts from the myeloid cells that create blood forming cells such as white blood cells (except for lymphocytes), red blood cells, and platelets (About Childhood Leukemia). Hybrid or mixed lineage leukemia are rare forms of childhood leukemia, but can be treated like ALL and AML. On the other end of the spectrum is chronic, or slow growing, leukemia. Chronic leukemia is difficult to treat and are more commonly found in adults than children. There are two types of chronic leukemia: chronic myelogenous leukemia (CML) and chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL). Chronic myelogenous leukemia (CML) is not commonly