Leukemia symptoms

Leukemia:

It is a type of cancer that affects the blood cells and the tissues that produce them, such as the bone marrow. In the human body, blood cells form in the bone marrow as stem cells and begin to mature later to form various components of blood (such as red blood cells, white blood cells, and platelets) and then travel to the bloodstream. As for the person with leukemia, the bone marrow begins to produce relatively larger numbers of Abnormal white blood cells that enter the bloodstream and begin to crowd out healthy blood cells, thereby affecting them and preventing them from performing their functions as required.

Types of leukemia:

There are a few types of leukemia, and they are usually divided into acute or chronic cancer as follows:

• Acute leukemia: as cancer cells grow very quickly, and this disease may seriously threaten the patient's life, in which the bone marrow produces large numbers of immature, abnormal white blood cells that enter the bloodstream, and these immature cells work to crowd out the normal cells. In the bloodstream, thus disrupting its function of fighting infection, stopping bleeding or preventing anemia, which makes the patient's body very weak and not immune to infection and various diseases. The most common types of acute leukemia are:

       1/ Acute lymphocytic leukemia.

       2/ Acute myeloid leukemia.

• Chronic leukemia: on the contrary to acute cancer, this type develops slowly and progressively worsens, and symptoms do not appear until after a long period, and sometimes chronic leukemia is diagnosed by chance through a routine examination without any symptoms appearing. This is because cancer cells In this type, they are mature enough, so there is no difference in function between them and normal cells before cancer begins to get worse. There are two main types of chronic blood cancer:

      1/ Chronic lymphocytic leukemia.

      2/ Chronic myeloid leukemia.

Symptoms of leukemia:

The symptoms of leukemia vary according to its type, acute or chronic. Acute leukemia causes symptoms similar to the flu, and the patient suffers suddenly within days or weeks. As for the chronic type, it usually causes few symptoms or may cause no symptoms, and all symptoms arise in it. Signs and symptoms gradually, and patients with chronic type of blood cancer often complain that they do not feel sick. It is possible to produce many symptoms of leukemia from other conditions, and it is not required that the symptoms be combined in one patient. Therefore, you should see a doctor if the following symptoms are found:

• Extreme fatigue and exhaustion.
• A general feeling of illness or discomfort.
• Loss of appetite and weight loss.

• body's temperature rising.
• Breathing difficulty.
• Pale skin tone.
• Accelerated heart rate.
• Weakness and weakness.
• Feeling light-headed.
• Getting bruises faster.
• Nosebleeds frequently, and gum bleeding as well.
• Bleeding occurs in the middle of the menstrual cycle, and may bleed heavily at the beginning.
• Small red spots appear under the skin due to bleeding.
•   Frequent infections of the lungs, urinary tract,

• Feeling headache.
• Sore throat.
• Extreme sweating at night.
• Feeling pain in the bones and joints.
• Enlarged lymph nodes in the neck, underarm, thigh, etc.
• Feeling of stomach pain or fullness. Vision changes, or blisters in the eyes
•   The emergence of so-called chloroma, which is the accumulation of cancer cells under the skin or anywhere in the body.
• The appearance of pink sores in various forms.
• Sweet syndrome: this syndrome is associated with leukemia, causing high body temperature, and painful ulcers appearing in various parts of the body.