Acute Lymphocytic Leukemia
Description
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The cancer starts in the bone marrow. It creates unhealthy abnormal White Blood Cells. The unhealthy WBCs crowd the healthy ones. Making it difficult for them to fight off the infections.
Risks/Causes
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Being a living person, it may not seem like much, but, mutations occur everyday, almost everyone is at risk, because of this. Previous chemotherapy can also cause it to happen, and exposure to radiation.
Symptoms
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Weakness, feeling tired, fever, easy bruising or bleeding, shortness of breath, weight loss, loss of appetite, pain in the bones or stomach, pain or a feeling of fullness below the ribs, painless lumps in the neck, underarm, or the groin.
Treatment
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Radiation therapy, stem cell transplant, targeted immune therapy, and chemotherapy: these are the medicines they use: Vincristine (Oncovin®), Daunorubicin (daunomycin or Cerubidine®), Doxorubicin (Adriamycin®),
Cytarabine (cytosine arabinoside, ara-C, or Cytosar®),
L-asparaginase (Elspar®) PEG-L-asparaginase (pegaspargase or Oncaspar®), Etoposide (VP-16), Teniposide (Vumon®), 6-mercaptopurine (6-MP or Purinethol®), Methotrexate, Cyclophosphamide (Cytoxan®), Prednisone (numerous brand names), Dexamethasone (Decadron®, others), Liposomal vincristine (Marqibo®)
Cytarabine (cytosine arabinoside, ara-C, or Cytosar®),
L-asparaginase (Elspar®) PEG-L-asparaginase (pegaspargase or Oncaspar®), Etoposide (VP-16), Teniposide (Vumon®), 6-mercaptopurine (6-MP or Purinethol®), Methotrexate, Cyclophosphamide (Cytoxan®), Prednisone (numerous brand names), Dexamethasone (Decadron®, others), Liposomal vincristine (Marqibo®)
Stem Cell Transplant
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The stem cell transplant makes somethings a lot easier to deal with. For instance: Stroke, traumatic brain injury, learning defects, Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, missing teeth, wound healing, bone marrow transplant, spinal cord injury, Osteoarthritis, Rheumatoid arthritis, Chron's disease, diabetes, Muscular Dystrophy, Myocardial Infarction, Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis, deafness, blindness, and baldness
Complications/Progression
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Excessive bleeding, damage to different organs, due to the chemotherapy, disseminated intravascular coagulation, relapse, severe infection, spreading of the cancer to the rest of the body
Lifestyle Changes
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Excercise can improve your physical and emotional health, it also improves your cardiovascular fitness, helps stay at a healthy weight, makes your muscles stronger, reduces fatigue, also helps lower anxiety and depression, makes you feel better about yourself
Interesting Facts!
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Chemotherapy can create many things to happen, some good and some not so good, hair loss, mouth sores, loss of appetite, nausea, vomitting, diarrhea, increased risk of infection, easy bruising and bleeding, and fatigue.
Vocabulary
Disseminated intravascular coagulation: a serious disorder in which the proteins that control the blood clotting become abnormally active
Fatigue: a feeling of tiredness or weariness
Relapse: To fall or slide back into a former state
Osteoarthritis: Most common of arthritis, often called wear-and-tear arthritis.
Rheumatoid arthritis: Chronic inflammatory disorder that typically affects the smaller joints in your hands or feet
Chron's disease: inflammatory bowel disease
muscular dystrophy: genetic disorder that weakens the muscles that help the body move
myocardial infarction: it is a medical term for a heart attack
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis(Lou Gehrig's disease): rapidly progressive, is invariably fatal neurological disease that attacks the neurons(nerve cells) responsible for moving voluntary muscles.