BY BRANDON HAMM

Leukemia

Fever & Night sweat Headaches. Bruising or bleeding easily. Bone or joint pain. A swollen or painful belly

from an enlarged spleen. Swollen lymph nodes in the

armpit, neck, or groin. Getting a lot of infections. Feeling very tired or weak. Losing weight and not

feeling hungry

Symptoms

Common Usually Affected

(CLL) is the most common for adults

(AML) is the most common for children

(JMML) is the most common for juveniles

In 2009 rates where at 44,000 adults a year would have it ages through 65+

Children ages (0-14) rates would be 3,500-5,000

This rates have grown 3.4 percent since then

Prevalence

Leukemia is a blood or bone marrow, which produces blood cells a person with type of cancer a person suffers from abnormal production of blood cells which mean they have a lot more white blood cells then normal

Mainly white cells, becomes damaged, This abnormality causes the blood cells to grow and divide chaotically.

Normal blood cells die after a while and are carried out by new cells which are produced in the bone marrow which causes this cancer

Causes

Leukemia treatments are bases upon factors such as, age and overall health also depends if the cancers cells have spread all over the body

Chemotherapy is the major drug Biological therapy helps immune

system Targeted therapy attack's

strongest spot Radiation therapy uses X-rays or

other high-energy beams to damage leukemia cells and stop their growth

cell transplant. A stem cell transplant is a procedure to replace your diseased bone marrow with healthy bone marrow

Treatments

Elderly Youth

Every day 129 Elderly people are told they have leukemia

There have been 12,000 elderly people that have died from this so far this year

Everyday 216 people ages 0-15 are told they have leukemia

10,600 estimate died this year from this cancer

Interesting Facts

Pictures

www.webmd.com/cancer/tc/leukemia-cause

www.ucsfbenioffchildrens.org › Conditions & Treatments

leukemiabmtprogram.org/

Sources