Having to watch a person suffer is quite difficult, but having to bear witness to the suffering of a child is downright heartbreaking. Thinking from a parent’s perspective it seems unimaginable to think that an innocent child, your child, could be diagnosed with cancer; and although it is rare for a child to develop cancer it is not impossible. Sadly, cancer is actually the leading cause of death by disease past infancy among children in the United States.
When most people hear the word cancer they usually think of a tumor; a mass that is the source of the problem and can possibly be removed with surgery. This scenario however is not how it works with leukemia for the simple fact that leukemia is a cancer of the blood cells. Leukemia is the most common childhood cancer accounting for about thirty-one percent of all cancers in children. The cancerous leukemia cells made in the bone marrow grow so rapidly that eventually they spill out into the bloodstream.
There are several types of leukemia and most of these types are made from cells that normally would develop into white blood cells. This is where leukemia received its name because the word ‘leukemia’ is derived from a Greek word which means
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White blood cells are cells that help the body fight against infections and disease. Red blood cells are the reason why blood has its red color. These red blood cells are cells that carry oxygen away from the lungs and deposit it throughout the body’s tissues; while also transferring the carbon dioxide in the body back to the lungs. Platelets are cells that help the body clot when there is an injury. This clotting process helps to control bleeding so the body does not lose excessive amounts of blood. All of these blood cells are formed from stem cells in the bone
The blood cell is made in the bone marrow of a bone and then enters a vein and goes toward to superior vena cava. The blood cell joins millions of other blood cells as well as white blood cells and platelets inside of plasma.
Blood is a bodily fluid that transports oxygen and nutrients to the cells within the body. Blood has plasma that lets the different types of blood travel round the body. Plasma contains proteins that have different functions for the blood- clotting, transporting and defence organisms and osmotic organisations. The plasma carries the red blood cell which has a elastic membrane so it can fit through the small capillaries within the body. Red blood cells can be also known as erythrocytes they don’t have a nucleus when they are matured which gives a bigger space for oxygen, although as there is no nuclei the red blood cells can’t divide so they only live for around 120 days. Red blood cells gain their colour from haemoglobin, oxygenated blood which is known as arterial blood which flows through the arteries coming from the heart and
Blood is made up of straw coloured plasma, the matrix, in which various types of blood are carried. Plasma is mainly water where substances are carried such as oxygen and carbon dioxide, nutrients such as glucose and amino acids, salts, enzymes and hormones. Also there is a combination of important proteins which help with blood clotting, transport,
Leukemia most common treatments are: Chemotherapy, Radiation therapy, and Bone marrow transplantation, and then there is also Biological therapy. In chemotherapy, patients take one or more anticancer drugs by mouth or, intravenously through IV therapy. In some cases, doctors need to inject the drugs directly into the fluid that surrounds the brain and spinal cord. Chemo can cause side effects, like losing your hair, nausea, fatigue, or easy bruising, depending on the drug. The side effects usually go away progressively between treatments or after treatments stop.
Leukemia, a cancer of blood-forming cells, occurs when immature or mature cells increa se in an uncontrolled manner in the bone marrow. Leukemia mostly involves the peripheral blood, and usually goes into the spleen, liver, and lymph nodes. It is a complex disease. There are several types of leukemia that can be classified depending on the type of white blood cell that is being multiplied abnormally and at the rate of which the cell is de veloping. Although there may not be a definite cause of leukemia, there are several risk factors to avoid that may play a role in leukemia. Wu(2015) claims that leukemia is slightly more often to occur in whites than in blacks and men are more likely to have leukemia than women. Race and gender may play a role in leukemia.
Another option is Bone Marrow Transplantation. In many cases of acute leukemia and cml, doctors give high doses of chemotherapy and radiation, when indicated to destroy all of the patient’s bone marrow, since it is not functioning correctly. Then they give the patient healthy bone marrow from the donor, whose tissue it the same or almost the same as theirs; ideally an identical twin or a sibling. They also might give bone marrow that was removed from the patient earlier and especially treated to remove any leukemia cells. Patients who have a bone marrow transplant bone marrow begins to produce enough
Leukemia is also known as blood cancer. It begins in the bone marrow, the soft material in the center of the bone, and when it runs out of room it works its way to the blood stream. It is a cancer that affects the red and white blood cells. It produces too many red and white blood cells that end up becoming abnormal and the healthy cells don’t have enough room to produce more healthy cells. Healthy cells will end up having a hard time carrying out the functions they need to do.
Blood is one of the most essential elements within the body. Blood is made up of plasma, red blood cells, and platelets. Blood is vital to the body functioning correctly, and it is important to understand that there are many types of blood disorders that can cause people to get sick. While there are many different types of blood disorders out there, this paper is going to cover three which are, anemia, sickle cell, and thrombocytopenia. Also, a review of plasma, red blood cells, and platelets to give a better understand of blood disorders.
The blood is a special type of tissue of body that exists in fluid form. Blood has two major portions, and they are blood cells and plasma. Plasma has 55% fluids. It’s largely water, which contains proteins, nutrients, hormones, antibodies, and dissolve waste products. The 90% of plasma is made of water, but the exact percentage varies depending upon the hydration levels of the
In humans, mature red blood cells are flexible biconcave disks that lack a cell nucleus and most organelles. 2.4 million new erythrocytes are produced per second.[1] The cells
Patients may undergo a series of treatment such as chemotherapy, radiation therapy, and stem cell transplant. If patients symptoms disappear therapy may still be needed to prevent relapse (Bernard & Tia, 2011). Children who have this disease undergo different regimens than any adult would (University of Maryland Medical Center, 2013). The risk factors that are most often associated with leukemia are not well understood. High level of exposure to medical radiation treatments is on major side effects to the treatment of leukemia. However this treatment may cause side effects to patients but controls the
Jack woke up one morning not feeling well. He felt very weak and could not get out of bed. His mother decided to take him to the doctors. The doctors took many tests to figure out what was making him feel that way. After about an hour or two the doctors got the results back from a blood test. Results that would change Jack’s childhood for the worse. Jack has been diagnosed with Leukemia, a blood cancer. Of course, Jack was not sure what that meant but, his parents became worried beyond belief with the long road ahead of them. Scientists and researchers were all involved in the discovery of Leukemia cancer, which increased knowledge of this cancer, decreased deaths and discovered treatments, and started charity groups to fund research.
Leukemia is a cancer of the blood cells and the body’s blood forming tissues. It begins in the bone marrow, the soft tissue where most blood cells are formed. With leukemia, abnormal white blood cells are being produced by the bone marrow. White blood cells fight against diseases and illnesses and are imperative for good health. These dysfunctional cells grow at a rapid pace, and end up crowding other normal, healthy cells in the bone marrow. This can often lead to more problems, such as bleeding, anemia, which is the deficiency of red blood cells, or infection. There are four main types of leukemia, which are then classified as either acute or chronic. These types can also have several subtypes.
Till and McCulloch described the two hallmarks of Haematopoietic stem cells to be long term self-renewal and the ability to differentiate into all various types of specialized blood cells, with one stem cell able to produce around a million mature blood cells after 20 divisions. The differentiation of these stem cells result in committed hemopoitic progenitor cells which give rise to cells from both the myeloid (monocytes, macrophages,neutrophils, basophils,eosinophils, erythrocytes, mega-karyocytes, platelets and dendritic cells) and lymphoid lineage (T-cells and NK-cells).
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