Leukemia essays
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Cancer: Across the world, cancer in all forms causes around 12 percent deaths [1]. This is estimated to have risen to 18.1 million new cases (17.0 million excluding nonmelanoma skin cancer) and 9.6 million cancer (9.5 million excluding nonmelanoma skin cancer) patients deaths according to WHO study 2018. Overall measurement shows that one of every 5 men and one in 6 women develop cancer during their lifetime, and one in 8 men and one in 11 women die from the...
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Cancer is a pretty broad term, there are so many different types of cancer a person can possess. The type that I decided to talk about today is childhood leukemia. Leukemia is cancer of the blood cells, white blood cells (WBC) are commonly the ones that are cancerous. The cancer attacks the white blood cells which are meant to fight infections off in the body. The type of leukemia a child can possess all depends on certain factors. Some leukemia...
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There are numerous approaches to treat leukemia and contrast starting with one individual then onto the next, contingent upon his age and wellbeing condition, and whether this was influenced by his nerves, his spinal liquid, or not. Treatment of leukemia is one of the most trouble some ways as not numerous types are analyzed in the first place and are found in its last phases of appearance, because of the side effects of the ailment that show up toward the...
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Chronic myeloid leukemia (CML) is an indolent neoplasm which is known for its invariable progression from a chronic to blastic phase. However, CML primarily presenting with megakaryocytic blast crisis (MKBC) in a young male without any preceding chronic phase is of extremely rare occurrence. We report an unusual case of a 22-year-old man who presented for the first time with splenomegaly and presence of blasts in the peripheral blood and bone marrow, clinically masquerading as acute leukemia. This case report...
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Abstract The current trend is residential proximity of industrial and urban sites being a risk factor in causing leukemia. Although there are many risk factors that cause leukemia, the role of industrial and urban pollution needs to be assessed. People need to be aware of every possible risk factor in causing cancer. The study done is a population-based control study. The goal of this study was to analyze the effects of exposure to industrial and urban areas on childhood leukemia....
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Definition: It is a blood cancer that affects white blood cells that affects children, but it may sometimes affect adults and is less complicated than blood cancer, and it is more common in men, This occurs when the rate of white cells resulting from their normal limit increases, As it is the white blood cells that are responsible for immunity in the body. 1 / how leukemia develops in the body? It begins with the stage of producing large numbers...
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