by brandon hamm leukemia. fever & night sweat headaches. bruising or bleeding easily. bone or...
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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