blood cancer

blood cancer

Is a cancer of the blood a-month types of human cancer, and the most common, and suggest some sources that the first case was discovered for this disease has been by a European doctors in the nineteenth century, and called on the name of the disease: leukemia, also called name: leukemia (leukemia), and the Greek origin of the word, they are vehicles from two Greek words, namely: leukos means white, and haima means blood, these two words mean The total leukemia.

Symptoms of leukemia symptoms of leukemia from one type to another vary, but there is a common symptom among them, including:

General fatigue and exhaustion; because of the low number of red blood cells and platelets.

 High temperature.

 Bleeding from the nose or gums or from the anus, as well as the appearance of bruises on the body repeatedly, and severe bleeding in menstruation.

The appearance of swelling in the glands in the neck or armpit or groin.

 Shortness of breath.

 Pain in the joints, muscles and bones.

Fever and night sweats.

Occurrence of frequent and serious infections.

 Loss of appetite and weight.

The treatment of leukemia

 It depends determine the type of leukemia treatment on several factors; such as Omar patient's general health condition and the type of cancer that injury also depends on the spread of the disease in another place or not. The common types are for the treatment of leukemia as follows:

Chemotherapy is the most important forms of treatment of leukemia, since the chemical compounds used to kill cancer cells.

 Based on the type of cancer the patient is given either one type of medication or drug vehicle, and be in the form of tablets taken by mouth or injected intravenously. Bioremediation: The aim of this kind to help the body's immune system to recognize and attack the cancer cells. Directed therapy: used the drugs attack the weak points of specific cancer cells.

 For example, stop the medication (Imatinnib) the work of a particular protein inside the tumor cells in chronic myeloid leukemia, and this helps to control the disease.

 Radiation therapy: as used in this X-rays and other types of radiation with high energy to destroy cancer cells and stop the growth type.

Stem cell therapy: a process in which the replacement of the infected bone marrow another sound, and before undergoing this treatment the patient receives high doses of chemotherapy or radiation to destroy the infected bone marrow, then transported to the patient is composed of stem cells to blood cells to rebuild the bone marrow.