Symptoms of relapse of leukemia

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In the past half century, the treatment of leukemia has made great progress, from incurable disease to long-term disease-free survival for many patients. But there are still many patients with recurrence. Relapse is the bottleneck of radical treatment of leukemia, and it is an old topic that puzzles generations of hematologists. For many years, the relapse of leukemia has been attributed to minimal residual leukemia. It is believed that the root cause of relapse is that the leukemia cells can not be killed completely and become the seed cells of relapse. Is leukaemia recrudescent symptom? Let's talk about it

Symptoms of relapse of leukemia

The condition of leukemia is extremely complex. The relapse of leukemia is acute and slow. The relapse of children and adolescents is relatively acute. When recurrence, there will be fever, progressive anemia, obvious bleeding tendency and bone and joint pain.

The main symptom of leukemia recurrence is cell proliferation and infiltration. Nonspecific lesions are bleeding, tissue malnutrition, necrosis and secondary infection. Cell proliferation and infiltration usually occur in bone marrow and other hematopoietic tissues, which can reduce the number of normal erythroid cells and megakaryocytes. Lymphoid tissue is infiltrated by leukemic cells, and lymph node enlargement occurs in the later stage.

The onset of relapse in the elderly and some young patients is relatively slow. This kind of patient's more common symptoms are progressive fatigue, pale complexion, panic after activity, shortness of breath, no appetite, weight loss or unexplained fever, when there are symptoms of leukemia, we can treat leukemia as soon as possible, so as to avoid its recurrence.

matters needing attention

Eat more high protein food, this is because leukemia is caused by pathological changes in blood cells, the body protein consumption of such patients is far greater than that of normal people, only the supplement of high quality protein, can maintain the function of various tissues and organs.