Lupus patients often have thrombocytopenic anemia, either because the immune system attacks and destroys platelets or the immune system interferes with the manufacture of platelets in the bone marrow. Platelets are the part of the blood that cause the blood to clot. If the blood does not clot, people bleed.
because leukemia is cancer of the blood :)
Leukemia patients suffer from a deficiency of platelets, among deficiencies of normal blood cells. Platelets are important clotting factors. A lack of platelets in the blood results in hypocoagulability. This predisposes patients to hemorrhages (bleeding diathesis). This means that if a leukemia patient suffers from external or internal trauma, they tend to bleed really easy. What i don't get is this- what about patients who did not suffer from any injury? Do they still bleed spontaneously? What causes them to bleed? There must be something damaging the blood vessels or causing an increase in endothelial gaps (allowing passage of red blood cells) before blood actually appears in the nose or mouth, right? Is high blood pressure such a cause and what other causes are there?
A Mild Leukemia may be something like Thrombocytopenia. That is a lack of platelets-cells that cause blood to clot properly so we don;t bleed to death. Mild Leukemias are know as Indolent Leukemia's. Many of them do not even require treatment and patients are just monitored with simple blood counts every few months or a few times a year. Also known as Follicular Leukemia.
The adjective form is leukemic, which pertains to the condition itself (e.g. leukemic anemia). The noun is used as a noun adjunct with other nouns as in leukemia treatment, leukemia patients, and leukemia symptoms.
near normal
Polycythemia Vera and Leukemia patients
In the SCID-X1 gene therapy trials, three patients developed leukemia as a result of the treatment. This was due to the unexpected activation of an oncogene during the insertion of the corrective gene into the patients' cells.
you can't do anything directly, but you can donate to charities like pennies for patients
3,800 children each year. 1 at the most, weird question
Yes, there is a treatment for leukemia. Treatment is usually in the form of drugs, coupled with chemotherapy. Some patients may also undergo radiation therapy or a bone marrow transplant.
The body's defense system is working extremely hard to fight the disease, and that in itself can cause fatigue.
Hematopoiesis occurs in the bone marrow. Leukemia is a kind of blood or bone marrow cancer which disrupts regular function and production of blood cells. A person with leukemia can not produce regular, healthy blood cells and that's why this person develop anemia.