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One of the most dreaded forms of cancer Leukaemia or blood cancer as it is commonly called has a new drug treatment that has raised hopes across the world. In an extensive research being carried out at the Children’s Cancer Hospital at The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, scientists have observed that a new kind of highly targeted treatment effectively treats acute leukaemia. In the animal models used by them, they observed that the growth of cancer cells was very effectively inhibited by not letting the cancerous cells being cleaned of their damaged proteins. Read the rest of this entry »

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Contrary to popular perception, no, they are not. Leukemia is classified by the rate at which it progresses. Leukemia afflicts the cells that form blood, starting in the bone marrow. This cancer is determined by an excess of white blood cells in the body. Any blood-forming cell in the bone marrow can turn into a cancer cell. Once this happens, the leukemia cell does not progress to the usual maturing process. The cells do not die and keep building up, ultimately getting into the bloodstream and then spreading to other parts of the body. Read the rest of this entry »

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Cancer is an abnormal growth of cells in the body. Human body is made of more than nine to ten trillion cells. They cannot be seen with naked eyes, only under a powerful microscope. Since the growth or division of cells is abnormal, it causes illness. Sometimes this disorder interferes with the functioning of systems; giving feeling of unwell-ness.

When cells grow abnormally it is called cancer and when a lump of cells start growing at one place it is called tumor. This mass sometimes may not be cancer. When such a lump is not cancer it is called benign and when it is cancerous it is called malignant. Read the rest of this entry »

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When you are feeling unwell in anyway and visit your doctor, the doc will prescribe a course of treatment and wait for you to respond positively to antibiotics. If you don’t and in the mean time your doctor notices certain other symptoms, he/she will refer you to a specialist. The symptoms or causes that the doctor notices can be one or more from these;

(i) Tiredness, breathlessness, bleeding, repeated infections, bruises etc.

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Leukaemia is a type of cancer that affects bone marrow. As a result of being affected with leukaemia, the bone marrow starts forming while blood cells that are not normal. These cells start circulating in the body and weaken immune system. These abnormal white blood cells may start building up in lymph nodes and spleen and can casue swelling. Liver, spinal cord or brain can also be adversely affected by Leukaemia.

Leukaemia is of two types, Acute Leukaemia and Chronic Leukaemia. In Acute Leukaemia cells divide and spread faster than Chronic Leukaemia. Again Acute Leukaemiais of two types.

Acute myeloid leukemia: In Acute Leukaemia lump of cells may get collected outside the bone marrow and it’s called granulocytic sarcoma. These cells can form in any part of patient’s body.

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I was listening to the radio last evening and a program cased me to link to a website from all the pages of the www.healthoma.com. The program was performed by a young man, Tooraj, who is suffering from Hodgkin’s disease. He is waiting for the bone marrow transplant but the suitable donor has not been found yet.

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