Cancer of blood

Answer 1

Blood cancer represents a large group of different malignancies. This group includes cancers of the bone marrow, blood, and lymphatic system, which includes lymph nodes, lymphatic vessels, tonsils, thymus, spleen, and digestive tract lymphoid tissue. Leukemia and myeloma, which start in the bone marrow, and lymphoma, which starts in the lymphatic system, are the most common types of blood cancer. What causes these cancers is not known.

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As leukemia and myeloma grow within the bone marrow, they can interfere with the bone marrow's ability to produce normal blood cells, including white blood cells, red blood cells, and platelets. This can cause frequent infections,anemia, and easy bruising. Lymphomas, which most typically appear as enlargement of the lymph nodes, can also interfere with the body's ability to fight infections. Additionally, myelomas generate a substance that weakens bones, and produce abnormal proteins that can cause symptoms in other parts of the body.

Treatment of blood cancers has undergone substantial improvements, resulting in increased rates of remission and survival. Remission occurs when there is no sign of cancer. Today in the United States, almost 1 million people are alive with, or in remission from, blood cancer (Source: LLS).

People who have blood cancer can have problems with bleeding and serious infections. Seek immediate medical care (call 911)for symptoms such as uncontrolled bleeding, severe sweating, difficulty breathing, pale or blue lips or fingernails, high fever (greater than 101 degrees Fahrenheit), fast heart rate, confusion, loss or change in level of consciousness, or anxiety.

Seek prompt medical care if you have experienced unexpected weight loss, persistent fever, frequent infections, night sweats, tiredness, bone pain, or enlarged lymph nodes.

Answer 2

"Infection of the blood" or "Blood infection" are broad terms used loosely in medicine to describe infection that is spread by organisms that are in the blood. Bacteremia is the medical term for presence of bacteria in the bloodstream after a trauma or mild infection. The localized infection (such as a urinary tract infection or wound infection from trauma, for examples) is the source of the bacteria that is found present in the blood. There may not be any additional symptoms from the spread of the bacteria from the local infection to also being found present in the blood, especially if antibiotic treatment of the localized infection is started immediately. Sometimes bacteremia can also be completely cleared by the body's own immune function and no antibiotics are needed.

Septicemia is defined by the AHA (American Hospital Association, the entity that has defined and created the International Classification of Diseases used by hospitals to report diagnoses in the US called ICD-9-CM) as, "a systemic disease associated with the presence of pathological microorganisms or toxins in the blood" (some organisms give off toxins that add to the illness along with infection). This, unlike bacteremia, is not specific to bacterial infections and also includes infections from viruses, fungi and other organisms. These organisms can "seed" infection in another site in the body and lead to such conditions as arteritis (infection of the arteries), meningitis (infection in the central nervous system), and pyelonephritis (kidney infections).

There is also a body-wide reaction (systemic response to infection) that can occur when pathological organisms are in the blood and circulating throughout the body in septicemia. That body-wide, "systemic" reaction can be called SIRS (Systemic Inflammatory Response Syndrome). The syndrome (a group of related symptoms) usually includes the symptoms of very high fever, rapid heartbeat, rapid breathing, weakness, sweating, hard chills and general fatigue with sometimes GI problems like vomiting or diarrhea, and a high blood count of WBCs (white blood cells/immune system fighting cells), which is called leukocytosis.

There are additional names for problems that occur with or due to septicemia and this is when a person may be called "septic". Sepsis generally refers to SIRS due to infection. Sepsis is the most common term for this body-wide "infection". Severe Sepsis is what it is called when the sepsis also causes acute organ dysfunction.

This could progress to Septic Shock or Septic Shock Syndrome, which is another group of symptoms related to infection present in the blood and throughout the body that includes a circulatory failure which is usually manifested as severe hypotension (extremely low blood pressure). Septic shock is very life threatening. All of the above mentioned conditions are very serious and life threatening conditions that should be diagnosed and treated by a physician emergently.

Answer 3

Do you mean which cancer involves blood transfusion therapy, or which cancer is from the blood?

Cancers of the blood are referred to as haematological cancers, eg, mainly the leukaemia's. Lymphoma too can spread to the bone marrow.

Depending on the severity of chemotherapy, a cancer patients blood count may drop to a level needing a blood transfusion. This is usually the case with leukemia patients.

Answer 4

Leukemia is the medical term you're looking for.
Leukemia
LEUKEMIA

There are many types of cancers of the blood.

Here are the scientific terms for a few:

• Leukemia
• Multiple Myeloma (MM)
• Lymphoma

Most cancers of the blood affect the body's immunity by affecting the blood's leukocytes (white blood cells).
LEUKEMIA

Answer 5

There are several different types of cancers of the blood. The term for the group is Hematological malignancy. And the types of this cancer are named Acute lymphoblastic leukemia, Acute myelogenous leukemia, Chronic lymphotic leukemia, Chronic myelogenous leukemia, Acute monocytic leukemia, Hodgkin's lymphoma, and Non-Hodgkin's lymphoma

Answer 6

Hematopathy means any disease of the blood.
haemo...
A blood dyscrasia.
Hematopathology
Dyscrasia is the general term. More specific diseases are denoted as being "of the blood" by the addition of the suffix "-emia" or "-aemia" to the term. For example, leuk-emia is a blood disease in which there are too many white (leuk) blood cells.

If a word is seen that contains the combining form hem/o or hemat/o, then this will mean that it has to do with Blood. The suffix - ia means condition of.

Examples of blood conditions include anemia, clotting disorders, hemophilia, porphyria, leukemia, purpura, Viral Hemorragic fevers, hemochromatosis, amyloidosis.

Answer 7

I believe cancer of the blood or bone marrow is called "Leucemia" . However

"Lymphoma" is also a type of blood cancer.

Answer 8

Hematoma is the medical term that, translated literally, means blood tumor. It's an abnormal collection of blood.

Answer 9

Leukemia.