Definition of leukemia
Leukemia is an uncontrolled proliferation of blood cells. This is usually the proliferation of white blood cells, since the number of blood in the blood exceeds the normal limit and the dream of 5 thousand to 10 thousand cells per mm, in leukemia, the number of cells from 15 thousand to 30 thousand cells per mm. This may reach more than 100 thousand cells per mm or even be less than 5 thousand cells per mm (less than the normal number).
The difference in this number is due to the stage of leukemia and its progress in the body. The abnormal white blood cells are produced in the bone marrow, which is the plant and source of all the blood cells in the body. Its reproduction in the bone marrow leads to its exit into the blood. In its early stages, To reduce the number of cells manufactured blood cells and before the blood cells of white blood cells out of the blood, resulting in a lack of progress in the blood white blood cells at the beginning of the disease, but soon the bone marrow these cancer cells to the blood, thus increasing the number of white blood cells in the blood. This increase is usually a steady increase.
- The effects of this increase that the patient has a lack of hemoglobin and therefore anemia in the blood begins to suffer from fatigue of any effort made by dizziness and frequent love of sleep and heavy laziness.
- As the disease continues, the patient suffers from a lack of platelets. His blood becomes delayed in the clot and there are several bruises on his skin due to the inability of the body to stop the clots.
- Frequent bleeding from the nose or gums. The increase of white blood cells to a large degree in the blood prevents oxygen-containing red blood cells from reaching the cells of the body, which affects the patient with various small strokes with abdominal pain and chest. This increase also weakens the resistance of the body to various diseases. It is often found that the patient has several bacterial or viral infections before he is diagnosed with this disease.
There are several types of leukemia reaching more than twenty species. Each type has its own characteristics and treatment. But there are two main types join them under several other types:
Acute leukemia and chronic leukemia , Blood cancer may affect several types of white blood cells, or red or platelets. Each of these types has its own treatment. Some of these species have been cured and some treatments are more difficult. Some species may need bone marrow transplantation to completely heal them. This helps us to accurately diagnose such cases by making special pigments. Each cell of a particular type dyes a different dye. From the total of these pigments we can identify the type of these cancer cells.
Blood cancer is diagnosed by performing blood tests in a high-quality laboratory to read the blood and see if it has abnormal cells.
If we find that they have abnormal cells we estimate the proportion of these cells, and we resort to a biopsy of the bone marrow, and the place I prefer to take a biopsy is the greatness of the basin as it is a safe place from any problems of our experience in the work of more than a thousand cases in this area. The study of bone marrow cells is estimated to have cancer cells or not.
If found, the cancer cells are dyed with several special pigments, and the result of these special pigments determines exactly what type of leukemia is. A sample is taken for the study of blood cancer chromosomes. Many treatments rely heavily on the type of chromosomal changes that affect leukemia, and then the patient begins appropriate treatment for this type.
Acute leukemia is treated differently from chronic leukemia, and acute and chronic leukemia types for each type of treatment are different. This was not the case ten years ago.
But as medicine progresses and scientists discover the genetic changes in every cancer, it becomes known how these genetic changes can be corrected. Some species may now have a completely cure for drugs that may not be chemotherapy, but the Biolgi treatment only affects cancer cells to a great extent without affecting the rest. body cells. I would like to mention, for example, that a type of acute leukemia called M3 can be cured by giving high doses of vitamin A.
Another type of chronic leukemia called CML has been effectively cured by giving patients a special enzyme inhibitor known commercially as Glyphic. These two types have been very successful in the last 10 years. Most other species have evolved. In the process of bone marrow transplant to replace the blood of the corrupt patient. Many of these operations are now successful. It is my belief that leukemia in the near future will be able to treat most of its species very effectively.
It is clear that the answer to this question must know the type of leukemia, if it is a species that has been a major development, most of these patients cured. If it is one of the least developed types of treatment, their things will be dependent on their progress in treatment and the impact of treatment on them. It should also be noted that leukemia affecting children especially has a significant relationship to the age of the child, the smaller the child (but not less than one year of age) and the increased chances of survival from leukemia.
That is to say, judging the success of each individual with leukemia is dependent on several factors, including specific types of leukemia, type of chromosomal changes in leukemia, age of the patient, sex of the patient (whether male or female), proportion of cancer cells in the blood, Blood outside blood (in tissues) or not.
I advise readers not to neglect periodic examinations that would reveal things early before our body begins to feel the symptoms of the existence of such diseases, which may be advanced at the time
Dr.. Hossam Abou Forsakh