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Friday, March 7, 2008

Leukemia Cancer

In 2002, I have a brother in law that been told having cancer, blood cancer called Leukemia. We all shock, never think about that. As we know Leukemia is a genealogy cancer.

That why I have a small research in Internet, and I get there many kinds of causes and risk factor that can trigger a leukemia cancer. Read on this the fact :

There is no single known cause for all of the different types of leukemia. The different leukemias likely have different causes, and very little is certain about what causes them. Researchers have strong suspicions about four possible causes:

  • natural or artificial ionizing radiation
  • certain kinds of chemicals
  • some viruses
  • genetic predispositions

There are 5 kinds of leukemia :

  1. Acute lymphocytic leukemia, affected on young children and adult for over 65 years
  2. Chronic lymphocytic leukemia, most affected on adult with age over 55 years

  3. Acute myelogenous leukemia, commonly affected adult, and more commonly in men then women
  4. Chronic myelogenous leukemia, mainly affected adult

  5. Hairy cell leukemia, mostly affected adult, no cases report affeted on young children

My brother in law just survive for 4 days from the day we know he get leukemia.

The most common treatment for leukemia cancer is to have chemotherapy, and we know there are no cure for leukemia. That was the doctor say to us. The only way just chemotherapy.
But there are many condition for the patient with cancer to have chemotherapy. The patient must be no having wound or other disease, even hemorrhoid. If you have one, you must have threatment for those diseases first. Why have to like that, the patient already dying? we ask the doctor.

The chemotherapy is to injected some chemical or drug in to patient that can kill any antibodi and the body will change the antibodi or white blood with the new one. So body without antibodi is like a fortress without soldiers. If the any wound or diseases, then there will be another problems to solve.

The other way to cure a leukemia cancer is to transplate meningitis. But is was a very difficult solution, because you must find a perfect macth donor. The best way to find it is around the family such as the brothers. And this is a expensive threatment.

References from

http://en.wikipedia.org

http://www.resource4leukemia.com

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