This disease diary is about leukemia. Leukemia is when certain abnormalities cause the cell to grow and divide more rapidly and to continue living when normal cells would die. Over time the abnormal cells can gather around healthy blood cells in the bone marrow, leading up to fewer healthy white blood cells, red blood cells, and platelets, and causing the signs and symptoms of leukemia. Scientists don’t understand the exact cause of leukemia, but they think it seems to develop from a combination of genetic and environmental factors. Doctors classify leukemia on the speed of progression and the types of cells involved. Acute and chronic leukemia are the first type of classification where it depends on the speed, and lymphocytic and myelogenous …show more content…
Symptoms of leukemia are: weight loss, fatigue, loss of appetite, night sweats, tiny red spots in your skin, swollen lymph nodes, enlarged liver or spleen, an bone pain or tenderness. Before they diagnosis you will leukemia, they will run a series of test on you such as: a physical exam, blood tests, and a bone marrow test. They might put you though some more tests to confirm and to determine the type of leukemia affecting your body. Depending on what stage your leukemia is, will determine what treatments they will give you. The prognosis of leukemia depends on what type of leukemia you have, your age, and your health status. The death rates for leukemia patients are higher in adults, then they are in children and young adults. Leukemia can be cured or managed with the treatments we have today. The treatment for leukemia are induction therapy, consolidation therapy, and maintenance therapy. Induction therapy kills leukemia cells in the blood and bone marrow to induce remission. Treatments include chemotherapy and
I have chosen to write about the constellation Cancer (The Crab). I chose Cancer because it is one of only a handful of constellations that I am actually able to identify in the night sky. Cancer is one of the twelve Zodiac constellations; people whose birthdays fall between June 21st and July 22nd have Cancer as their sign. Cancer is the Latin word for crab, and despite the fact that the constellation looks more like a lobster then a crab, it is still referred to as a crab. The constellation is visible from the northern hemisphere from late winter to early spring.
Sickle-cell anemia is a genetic disorder that makes your body produce red blood cells that are abnormal in shape. This disease is also widely known as hemoglobin SS disease. Unlike normal red blood cells, sickle cells are rigid and tenacious. Due to their shape and rigidness, they can block blood flow. In turn, this could cause organ damage to the body. Sickle cells are also fragile and die very easily due to the fact sickle cells have a lifespan of twenty days instead of the normal one hundred and twenty days for normal red blood cells.This causes the body to have a lower blood cell count, hence the name anemia in sickle cell anemia.
“The word 'leukemia' is a very frightening word. In many instances, it's a killer and it's something that you have to deal with in a very serious and determined way if you're going to beat it” - Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. Many people, including tons of children, fight leukemia every day trying to beat this vicious cancer. Without knowing how leukemia is exactly caused, it puts a damper on how to avoid it.
The Phase I trial will be discussed here as it pertains to the topic at hand. The typical treatment for cervical cancer if surgery is not a viable option – like if the cancer has spread, then called locally advanced cervical cancer – is chemotherapy and radiation treatment at the same time. This phase I clinical trial is simply looking to add ipilimumab to this regimen, but once the chemo/radiation has been completed (LACC article). Chemo and radiation destroy tumor cells, which causes tumor-associated antigens to be released. Once released, these antigens are exogenous (outside the cell) and will be presented to helper T cells to initiate an immune response.
The immune system has the important job of protecting the body from foreign invaders. It is made up of a network of cells (including white blood cells), tissue and organs. The foreign invaders the immune system fight include viruses, bacteria, microbes and pathogens. In order to stop these foreign invaders, there is a process known as immune response that attacks in three different lines of defence. Without this immune response, the body would be constantly under invasion by pathogens trying to attack and induce illness.
Cancer is a type of disease that has many variations. it is an extremely broad disease, consisting of over 200 different types. It affects millions of people around the world each year. The disease occurs because of an irregular cell growth in the body. The cells uncontrollably divide and grow through the process of mitosis. This creates either benign, or malignant tumors. Benign tumors are not dangerous, but malignant tumors are dangerous and are given the term ‘cancerous’. The malignant tumors can invade other parts of the body by traveling through either the bloodstream, or the lymphatic system. It is a very dangerous disease, it is not contagious, and it can be cured if it is diagnosed and treated early. Many cancers have a different mortality rate, but not all of the different types of cancers have a high mortality rate.
Leukemia is a cancer of the white blood cells. It begins in the bone marrow, the soft tissue inside the bones. Within the bone marrow is where white blood cells are created, that help fight off bacteria, viruses, and other microorganisms within the body that cause infections. The disease develops to when the white blood cells are being produced out of control. The cells that are being produced do not work properly as they should, they grow faster than a normal cell would and don’t know when to stop growing. Overtime, if not treated properly, the white blood cells will over crowd blood cells, creating a serious problem such as anemia, bleeding and infection. Leukemia cells can spread to the lymph nodes and other organs in the body causing swelling and pain.
...l risk factors that are fully linked developing multiple myeloma. Therefore, preventative measures remain unknown.
With these tests, your doctor will see if the cells have a different or expected appearance in anyway. With these different types of test it will tell you the type of Leukemia or cancer you may have, and it will tell you the growth rate that it is growing, and the size of the cancer. They will get samples of living tissues to analysis the organs then they will be able to tell you if the cancer has spread.
The main treatment for children with ALL is chemo, which has 3 phases: induction, consolidation, and maintenance (American Cancer Society). The goal of induction is to bring remission. Leukemia cells are no longer found in bone marrow samples and counts are normal. More than 95% of children with ALL go into remission after 1 month of treatment (American Cancer Society). Consolidation involves diminishing leukemic cells in obscure places. Several drugs are used to facilitate this process, depending on the child?s risk category. Children may benefit from a stem cell transplant at this time (American Cancer Society). Maintenance occurs if leukemia stays in remission successfully after receiving first two phases of treatment. The total length of therapy for all three phases is two to three years for most children with ALL (American Cancer
The disease is known by the uncontrolled growth of blood cells, usually white blood cells in the bone marrow (“Leukemia Information”). The leukemia cells overcrowd and replace normal blood and marrow cells (“Leukemia Information”). Leukemia is likely to occur when when some blood cells have mutations in their DNA. There could be other changes in cells that could contribute to the forming of Leukemia (“Leukemia”). According to Leukemia Causes - Mayo Clinic, Certain abnormalities cause the cell to grow and divide more rapidly and to continue living when normal cells would die. Over time, these abnormal cells can crowd out healthy blood cells in the bone marrow, leading to fewer healthy white blood cells, red blood cells and platelets, causing the signs and symptoms of leukemia (“Leukemia”). Leukemia is classified based on its speed of progression and the type of cells involved
Acute lymphocytic leukemia, or ALL, is a type of cancer that starts in the bone marrow where early blood cells are made. It is also called acute lymphoblastic leukemia. (American Cancer Society, 2016). Leukemia is cancer of the blood and the blood forming tissues. It is characterized by overproduction of lymphocytes. Acute leukemias involve lymphocytes that grow rapidly, but abnormally (Leukemia, 2016). According to American Cancer Society (2016), “The term ‘acute’ means that the leukemia can progress quickly, and if not treated, then it could be fatal within a few months. Lymphocytic means it develops from early forms of lymphocytes, a type of white blood cells.”
Bone cancer is classified into primary bone cancer & secondary bone cancer. Basically, Primary bone cancer starts in the bone; then the cancer initially forms in the cells of the bone; while the secondary cancer starts elsewhere in the body and gets spread to the bone.
I remember the tears in my parents’ eyes the day my older brother, Niraj, was diagnosed with Thalassemia major, a blood cancer where hemoglobin is deformed resulting in improper oxygen transport. I remember the countless times he had been rushed to the hospital in the middle of the night, leaving me to wake up in the morning to an empty house. Most regrettably, I remember slowly drifting away from my parents as our top priority became saving my brother. I tried to help as much I could, but how much could a nine year old girl contribute to curing cancer? The cancer affected not only my brother, but also my entire family. It was brutal, tragic, hapless and most notably a thief. It stole time, effort, money, and energy, but the most important
Because cells are the ‘basic unit of life’, the study of cells, cytology, can be considered one of the most important areas of biological research. Almost every day on the evening news, we are told about new discoveries in cell biology, such as cancer research, cloning, and embryology. (https://highered.mheducation.com/sites/0073031216/student_view0/exercise3/the_importance_of_cell_biology.html)