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Disease Details

Blood cancer
Disease Type Hematology
Description

There are four main types of leukemia which differ a therapeutic interventions and destined of cures for treatment:
- Acute medullar leukemia
- Acute lymph leukemia
- Chronic medullar leukemia
- Chronic lymph leukemia

Causes

Still the causes is unknown to causes leukemia but it seems that it generates and develops as a result of several factors such as genetic and environmental factors together, but the cancer itself is not inherited.

Symptoms

Symptoms vary from patient to patient but in general may occur one or more of the following symptoms:
- High temperature
- Night sweats
- Frequent infections
- Weight loss
- Headaches
- pain in the joints
- Bleeding
- Bruises on the skin
- Swollen lymph glands
- Extreme fatigue

Treatments

Basic factors are related to methods of treatment are age, health status, the type of cancer and the degree of spread to other organs in the body. There are ways to treat leukemia include:
- Chemotherapy
- Radiation therapy
- Stem Cell Transplantation
- Immune therapy

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