Blood Cancer’s Basic
Leukemia is the name of the disease which generally referred as cancer of the blood. But it is not blood cancer in actual terms but the cancer of the platelets and WBC. 
Platelets help in clotting of blood in case of any injury and the WBC’s are the soldiers which fight the germs in the body and protect us from diseases. actually the WBC form the immune system, but in case of cancer the count of WBC get reduced so much that a person can die even of a normal flu. Also the body is not able to stop the flow of blood in case of any injury due to platelets counts reduce. This is a very vulnerable situation.
There are two types of blood cancer- acute and the chronic. Both forms are dangerous. Acute leukemia affects the cells which are partially developed or being derived from the other cells. These are called non-functional cells because they have not attained there full utility.
In case of disease as these developing cells get affected and even outnumber the normal cells, as a result the count of RBC get reduced afterwards resulting to anemia. In case of chronic, it affects the normal cells. This allows the development of larger amount of the normal cells. Thus in this case the normal cells outnumber the developing one and as a result the flow of blood is affected as the number of cells increases. These cells are termed as blood cancer cells.
The blood cancer is divided into four categories.
Myelogenous Leukemia (both acute and chronic)
Lymphocytic Leukemia (both acute and chronic)
Blood cancer symptoms are generally visible in case of the acute leukemia. In case of the chronic one only the blood test and usual checkup will tell the position. In case of the chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia (CLL) a person may see enlarged lymph nodes in neck, armpit, etc. also a person may fall to infections now and then. Some of the symptoms of acute leukemia are
- Fatigue.
- Sluggish curing of any wounded part of body.
- Night sweats.
- Bruises without any injury
Blood count test helps in getting the actual position. This may tell the right amount of the cells in the body. They are on higher side or the lower one. Test also accounts for the cancerous cells if any. Bone marrow test is also a part to get the chromosome irregularity if any.
