Awareness of leukemia

Leukemia in accordance with the maturity of the white blood cells can be divided into two kinds of acute and chronic; and depending on the types of cells and bone marrow can be divided into two types of lymphocytes. 

 (A) acute leukemia 

  Usually acute leukemia patients in clinical performance of a more rapid and severe clinical symptoms in the patients often have fever, bleeding tendency, pale circumstances such as medical treatment, in the conventional blood tests are always performance leukocytosis, thrombocytopenia and anemia phenomenon. However, occasional patients to reduce or normal white blood cells occurs, it will depend on the diagnosis of bone marrow examination results. 

  Such diseases can occur in any group, any age and without gender. Generally more common in children with acute lymphocytic leukemia, the more common adult acute myeloid leukemia. In the past such diseases diagnosed a few months after the patient had died. It is a very terrible and vicious disease. But has a good drug treatment, most patients can be alleviated, if combined with bone marrow transplantation, there are a part of the patient may have to recover. This sincere and advances in medicine in recent years, one big example of the benefit of mankind. 

 (B) chronic leukemia 

  Chronic leukemia mainly of mature white blood cell proliferation, can be divided into chronic myeloid leukemia and chronic lymphocytic leukemia, such diseases occur in adults. Which according to different racial, Westerners incidence of chronic lymphocytic leukemia. 

  Such diseases patients often without symptoms, there is a big part of the patient is in a regular medical examination was found elevated white blood cell and learned. Generally speaking, patients often have fatigue, malaise and easy bleeding symptoms could be observed. Physical examination, the patients in chronic myeloid often found Splenomegaly obvious and chronic lymphocytic leukemia patients who have lymph nodes is easy; in the laboratory examination can be seen clearly on the increase in white blood cells and mature blood cells of the majority . Chronic myeloid leukemia patients after treatment by the drug by about 3 to 4 years, there will be transformed into acute leukemia change, at this time and in general little difference between acute leukemia, treatment is often a poor response. However, interferon treatment can delay the patient into the acute phase. 

  The roots of these patients the only treatment is bone marrow transplant, such curable diseases, but only among relatives Is Hard to Find, for the current use of non-relatives to donate bone marrow treatment of the biggest beneficiaries, and the sooner the transplant, the effect of the more. As for chronic lymphocytic leukemia is less common in people, and due to a longer period of disease, early diagnosis of the patients generally survive more than 10 years a great opportunity for the end of the patients are also very effective treatment available. 

  In short leukemia was considered in the past is a terrible disease and die, but in recent years due to progress in medicine and disease pathogenesis for the understanding and application of bone marrow transplantation, leukemia is no longer a "killer" .