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The Leukemia Blood Cancer
Bone marrow is the soft tissue that exists in every bone. In this bone marrow blood cells are made. Blood cells in the bone marrow factory are as follows:
* White blood cells, its duty to protect the body from infection.
* Red blood cells carry oxygen to all its organs.
*Platelets or platelets, its duties to support the process of blood clotting.
In normal people, all of these functions run as it should, but not in patients with leukemia. Bone marrow produces abnormal white blood cells in large numbers. These cells became known as leukemia cells. Unlike the white blood cells generally, the leukemia cells grow very fast even they were able to grow endlessly.
Unfortunately, the tremendous growth of leukemia cells is capable of pressing the normal blood cells. Thus came the health problems such as anemia, bleeding and infection. Leukemia cells also spread to the lymph nodes and other organs causing swelling and pain.
Leukemia has several types, what is the difference in each type?
There are various types of leukemia, but in general, leukemia is distinguished by how fast the leukemia could make worse the patient’s condition and type of white blood cell involved.
*Acute and chronic. Acute leukemia, deterioration occurs very rapidly and the patient can feel the complaint was also contrary worsening chronic leukemia occurs very slowly and the patient does not feel any complaints in recent years.
*Limpositik and myelogenus. Lymphocytic leukemia or limfoblastik involving white blood cells lymphocytes while leukemia myelogenus myelosit involving white blood cells.
Well, from the above, then made four main types of leukemia are:
*Acute lymphoblastic leukemia or ALL, the leukemia is more common in children but adults can also be suffering.
* Acute myelogenous leukemia or AML, leukemia that can attack children and adults.
* Chronic lymphocytic leukemia, or CLL, leukemia is the case in adults, usually aged over 50 years. Children rarely are suffering.
*Chronic myelogenous leukemia or CML, a common leukemia in adults.
Breast Lumps
The breasts are composed of fat, connective and glandular. In this tissue are the milk producing glands which are born 15 or 20 mammary ducts, to carry milk to the nipple, surrounded by the areola. These lobules and ducts are located in the stroma, adipose tissue, which are also blood vessels and lymphatics. The breast tissues are connected also with a group of lymph nodes, located in the armpit. These nodes are key to the diagnosis of breast cancer, since cancer cells spread to other parts of the body through the lymphatic system. When speaking of sentinel node refers precisely to the node nearest to the place where cancer is located.