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The leukemia is of two kinds: acute leukemia and chronic leukemia.

In acute leukemia, there are abnormal blood cells and these abnormal cells number increases rapidly.

Chronic leukemia has no symptoms and the abnormal blood cells function normally. When the number of blood cells increases, then the symptoms occur.

Acute leukemia is caused due to some risk factors but the exact cause is still unknown. High levels of radiation can cause high risk when you are exposed to them.

Some chemicals like formaldehyde and benzene are used in chemical industry. You are mostly affected with leukemia when you work in these industries.

Chemotherapy is used to treat cancer but the alkylating agents are involved in the development of leukemia. Down syndrome is the genetic disease that leads to leukemia.

Leukemia travels through out the body like the blood cells. You may have certain symptoms that include

• Loss of weight
• Head ache
• Infections that occur frequently
• Night sweats or fever
• Feeling tired or weak
• Pains in the joints or bones
• Easy bruising and bleeding
• Lymph nodes in the armpit or neck swollen
• Discomfort or swelling in abdomen

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Leukemia or Blood cancer literally means ‘many white cells in the blood’.

As you know White blood cells are produced by the bone marrow, the soft spongy centre of bones. They then pass from the bone marrow into the blood stream and lymph system.

White blood cells are involved in various functions of the immune system which is the body’s defense system.

This immune system protects the body from infections. In Leukemia or Blood cancer, some blood cells do not grow properly, but remain within the bone marrow and continue to reproduce in an uncontrolled way.

Strange! These cells fill up the bone marrow and prevent it from making healthy white blood cells. This means the body is less able to fight off infections.

Also the bone marrow is able to make other types of blood cells, such as red blood cells and platelets. Problems can result from a reduction in number of these cells.