What is leukemia

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Leukemia is a kind of cancer of the blood, and such a disease, regardless of age, will have a direct threat to the health and safety of patients. What is leukemia?

What is leukemia

First of all, leukemia is also known as blood cancer. After suffering from leukemia, psychology is often hurt. In fact, leukemia is a kind of hematopoietic stem cells. If they mutate, they will be abnormal and will be malignantly cloned. Then the cloned cells often stop developing and will be in different stages of development. They will proliferate in a large number of hematopoietic tissues and will be damaged Damage to the original cells and tissues, while affecting the body's normal hematopoiesis, often anemia and bleeding and so on.

Secondly, according to the onset of the disease can be divided into acute and chronic leukemia. The differentiation of acute leukemia cells is stagnated in the early stage, mainly in the early primordial cells. The disease develops rapidly, and the course of disease is several months. Chronic leukemia cell differentiation is good, mainly immature or mature cells, slow development, the course of several years. According to the series of diseased cells, there are granulocytic, monocytic, erythrocytic, megakaryocytic and lymphocytic T and B cell lines. Clinically, leukemia is often divided into acute lymphocytic leukemia (all), acute myeloid leukemia (AML, formerly known as acute non lymphocytic leukemia), chronic myeloid leukemia, chronic lymphocytic leukemia, etc.

Finally, there are more symptoms after leukemia, and the symptoms of patients with different conditions will be different, but the most common are: anemia, fever, unexplained painless swelling, bleeding and so on.

matters needing attention

Leukemia is a serious disease, such a disease to do early detection, early examination and early treatment, especially after knowing the condition, patients should also adjust their mood, positive and optimistic to face.