Is leukemia a chronic disease

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My colleague's son is always in good health. This time, he often has a cold and cough, and his face is very ugly. The day before yesterday, he suddenly had a nosebleed. He looked up for a long time to stop bleeding. Today, he was inexplicable and had a terrible flow, so he went to the hospital for examination. The result was that he was diagnosed with leukemia. My colleague was under great pressure and told me a lot. I also helped him check a lot of information online. Next, I'll share with you Is leukemia a chronic disease.

Is leukemia a chronic disease

First: leukemia is divided into acute leukemia and chronic leukemia, can also be divided into myeloid leukemia (also known as myeloid leukemia) and lymphocytic leukemia, and so on. "Acute myeloid leukemia" has been diagnosed as acute, which of course belongs to acute leukemia, but acute myeloid leukemia can be transformed from chronic myeloid leukemia. If CML enters the acute phase, that is, it turns into acute leukemia, the prognosis will be worse. So acute myeloid leukemia is certainly not a chronic disease, but it may have been a chronic disease.

Second, leukemia is a kind of hematopoietic stem cell malignant clonal disease. Clonal leukemia cells proliferate and accumulate in bone marrow and other hematopoietic tissues, infiltrate into other non hematopoietic tissues and organs, and inhibit normal hematopoietic function due to uncontrolled proliferation, dysfunction of differentiation and blocked apoptosis. Anemia, hemorrhage, infection, fever, swelling of liver, spleen, lymph nodes and bone pain were observed in different degrees. According to reports, the incidence rate of leukemia in various regions of China is sixth.

Third: some chemicals have the effect of leukaemia. The incidence of leukemia in the population exposed to benzene and its derivatives was higher than that in the general population. There are also reports of leukemia induced by nitrosamines, bentazone and its derivatives, chloramphenicol, etc. Some anti-tumor cytotoxic drugs, such as nitrogen mustard, cyclophosphamide, methylbenzylhydrazine, VP16, VM26 and so on, can induce leukemia.

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The onset of the disease is slow, and there are often no self-conscious symptoms in the early stage. Most of the patients are diagnosed with abnormal hemogram or splenomegaly only after health examination or other diseases. With the development of the disease, there may be fatigue, low fever, hyperhidrosis or night sweats, weight loss and other manifestations of hypermetabolism. As a result of splenomegaly and feeling left upper abdominal distension, fullness after eating and other symptoms. Examination is the most prominent splenomegaly, often medical treatment has reached the umbilical plane. The patient's condition can be stable for 1-4 years, then enter the accelerated phase, anemia and more symptoms appear quickly, and then quickly enter the acute phase, which can change into AML or all. The clinical manifestations are exactly the same as acute leukemia, the treatment effect and prognosis are worse than primary acute leukemia, and usually die quickly.