Connective Tissue: Leukemia by Ashley Vickers

What is it?

ashleyvickers21 — 2014-11-20 17:24:51 UTC

Leukemia is cancer that starts in the tissue that forms blood.

What does the cells look like?

ashleyvickers21 — 2014-11-20 17:25:23 UTC

What does it look like, on a larger scale?

ashleyvickers21 — 2014-11-20 17:28:24 UTC

How is it diagnosed?

ashleyvickers21 — 2014-11-20 17:30:29 UTC

Leukemia can be diagnosed from pale skin from anemia and swelling of your lymph nodes, liver and spleen. They do blood tests looking at a sample of your blood, can determine if you have abnormal levels of white blood cells or platelets which may be leukemia

How can it be treated?

ashleyvickers21 — 2014-11-20 17:33:13 UTC

Leukemia Chemotherapy: Drugs given by IV injection or taken by mouth enter the bloodstream and affect leukemia cells in most parts of the body.

Leukemia Radiation Therapy: Leukemia patients might receive radiation that is directed to the whole body or just part of your body.

Leukemia Biological Therapy: Biological therapy is a form of leukemia treatment that involves treatment with substances that affect the immune system's response to cancer.

Leukemia Stem Cell Transplantation: The high doses destroy both leukemia cells and normal blood cells in the bone marrow. Then the patient receives healthy stem cells through a flexible tube that is placed in a large vein in the neck or chest area. After that New blood cells develop from the transplanted stem cells.

Treatment

ashleyvickers21 — 2014-11-20 17:40:52 UTC

Interferon therapy to slow the reproduction of the cells and promote the immune system's anti-leukemia activity, a radiation therapy to kill cancer cells by exposure to high-energy radiation; stem cell transplantation to enable treatment with high doses of chemotherapy and radiation therapy.

How can you prevent it?

ashleyvickers21 — 2014-11-20 17:44:43 UTC

To Prevent leukemia there is actually no way to prevent Leukemia. But you can avoid it but not smoking and radiation.

Why I chose this?

ashleyvickers21 — 2014-11-20 17:47:13 UTC

I chose this because it sounded interesting and I wanted to learn more about it. I've never really knew much about Leukemia until now. I have learned some facts and things about it.

References

ashleyvickers21 — 2014-11-20 17:49:27 UTC

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