Diseases

Leukemia

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Leukemia is an acute or chronic disease in humans and other warm-blooded animals characterized by an abnormal increase in the number of white blood cells in the tissues and often in the blood.

SYMPTOMS

Pain in the bones or joints, dizziness, fatigue, fever, loss of appetite, or weakness, bleeding, easy bruising, frequent infections, mouth ulcer, nosebleed, pallor, red spots on skin, shortness of breath, swollen lymph nodes, or unintentional weight loss

CAUSES

Leukemia happens when the dna of immature blood cells, mainly white cells, becomes damaged in some way.This Causes the blood cells to grow and divide continuously, so that there are too many. Healthy blood cells die after a while and are replaced by new cells, which are produced in the bone marrow.