LEUKEMIA
Disease information
LEUKEMIA
The immunological
system
is the one in
charge
to protect the organism of the agents who him can cause damages.
For it
, in the blood they are the white globules that although live very few hours, renew all along in the bony marrow that are located within some bones and is the one in
charge
to produce them.
But
when the bony space in which the marrow takes place is invaded by cells you vitiate or atípicas that grow in limitless form, cannot work normally and
leukemia
is developed to
a
called
cancer
.
It is to say that the
leukemia
or
cancer
of the blood takes place because in the bony marrow there are other cells that invade it and they do not allow that it makes white globules. The
leukemia
is the term that describes the diverse types of
cancer
which they affect the blood.
This
disease
in
Mexico
, is the first cause of infantile mortality by
cancer
, affects more to
children
and in the last years it
has
increased much between adult people.
Its name comes from the Greek and means "white blood", because the blood of the people who suffer this
disease
presents / displays pale
a
whitish or pink color, due to the high amount of abnormal white globules that are the causes of the
cancer
.
The
leukemia
affects to all the sanguineous cells and the bony marrow,
but
mainly to white globules or leukocytes and it is characterized by
a
halting in the maturation of the cells in
charge
of the formation of the components of the blood, at the same time that take place without control immature sanguineous cells.
This proliferation of cells you vitiate is originated in the bony marrow, ordered to distribute the blood to different weaves from the body.
Although the cause or causes is not known with exactitude, it knows that diverse predisponentes factors exist as they are the
genetic
ones, environmental immunodeficiencies, factors and virus.
Between the identified factors as leading of the
leukemia
it is the exhibition to ionizing radiations, the
contact
with benzene, pesticidas or tars and the use of some drugs against the
cancer
and other medicines. Also some
genetic
upheavals like the
syndrome
of Down, increase the risk.
Some decades ago this
disease
was
mortal in
a
percentage very elevated,
but
the scientific studies have allowed to
develop
schemes of treatment with
a
greater effectiveness, helping to that the mortality indices have diminished considerably.
IMPORTANT the content of this note is informative and it does not replace the medical diagnosis, reason why we do not become people in
charge
on its use.
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