Leukemia In My Sister's Keeper

In the book My Sister’s Keeper by Jodi Picoult, Anna’s older sister has cancer. For as long as Anna has been alive, she has been her donor. Anna has turned thirteen and finally realizes what she has been doing for all these years. She has been giving her sister white blood cells and bone marrow without being asked for permission. She does not want to donate to her anymore. Although Anna and Kate are sisters, Anna has to change this.

This subsequently causes a drop in red blood cells, platelets and normal white blood cell production. As an acute form of leukemia, AML progresses rapidly and is typically fatal within weeks or months if left untreated (Nazki et al., 2012).

This movie called My Sister’s keeper is a film that is all about a couple’s life that has a daughter named Kate. Kate was diagnosed with promyelocytic leukemia. Promyelocytic leukemia (PL) is a malignancy of the bone marrow in which there is a lack or insufficiency of mature blood cells in the myeloid line of cells and an excess of immature cells called promyelocytes. PL is due to a translocation (an exchange of chromosome material) between chromosomes 15 and 17 which is symbolized t(15; 17). This translocation is not a mere marker of PL. It is the cause of PL (MedicineNet, n.d.). Gordon’s functional health assessment pattern was use in this presentation. The patient’s culture, geographic, religious, ethnic or spiritual and sexual concerns

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).

Acute is the one that is serious because it does not allow some mature cells to be made but chronic does. The first type is Acute Lymphocytic Leukemia, this is the most common type of leukemia among children and adults can also get it. The second type is Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia and its common on adults over 55, although young adults get it as well. Acute Myelogenous Leukemia more common among adults than children and significantly affect males more than females. The last one is Chronic Myelogenous and this one the majority of the patients are

I’m writing a essay about a book called Kira-Kira written by Cynthia Kadohata. Katie and her sister Lynn are best friends, but after a while she became sick. After a while they found out why she was sick, she had a disease called Lymphoma which means cancer in the blood. When the family knew about it they tried to do anything they can to make Lynn happy before something terrible happens.

Myelofibrosis is a bone marrow disorder that leads to a disruption of the body’s ability to produce normal healthy blood cells. A rare form of chronic leukemia, the disease often worsens over time and may cause some patients to develop more serious types of leukemia. Conversely, other people have myelofibrosis and go for years without noticing any symptoms.

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Acute types of leukemia make a person sick rapidly, and can progress quickly. Acute leukemia starts out in the blast cells;

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.

In the book “My Sister’s Keeper,” there is a child named Kate who is diagnosed with Acute Promyelocytic Leukemia. After doing tests, her parents learn that neither them nor their son are matches for donors for Kate. They decide to genetically make a baby would would be a perfect donor match for Kate, who will be known as Anna. Anna’s main purpose is to help Kate, meaning donating blood, bone marrow, kidneys, etc.. With a plot twist at the end of the story, Anna dies from a car wreck while Kate who has a life threatening cancer survives.

Leukemia is a type of cancer. Cancer is a group of more than 100 diseases that have two or more important things in common. One is that certain cells in the body become abnormal. Another is that the body keeps producing large numbers of these abnormal cells. Leukemia is cancer of the blood ce3lls. When leukemia develops the body produces large numbers of abnormal blood cells. In most types of leukemia, the abnormal blood cells and they do not

Leukemia was diagnosed for the first time in Edinburgh by John Bennett. Later in 1868, a vital discovery was made about changes in bone marrow and the red blood cells on leukemic patients. “The earliest report of the illness to have been made by Velpeau. Velpeau reported a case of a 63 year old woman who had a fever, swollen stomach, as well as being generally weak” (Thomas 63). At the time they have not discovered leukemia, so they were unsure what it was. Scientist has also found dinosaur bones from over millions of years old that had leukemia. Neumann discovered that changes in bone marrow are linked with the source of blood. Leukemia comes from Greek words “leuko” and “Heima” that means white blood. The Greeks were given credit for leukemia. “Leukemia is a cancer of blood and bone marrow. It affects white blood cells called lymphocytes” (Childhood, Pediatric). Leukemia is started when the DNA of white cells are mutated or damaged. A child that has a sibling with leukemia has a greater chance of developing it than someone without a sibling but the risk is still low. The risk of a twin to developing leukemia is a lot greater than just being siblings. Leukemia is one deadliest cancers. There are more than 300,000 americans living with this cancer. There are about 150 people diagnosed with leukemia us the U.S and about 70 people die everyday. This cancer is more common for children who are Hispanic and adolescents with the five

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