One of the most common types of cancer that prevails in today’s scenario is the skin cancer. It is estimated that in US alone 1 million people are under the affect of this disease. So it is important that we are aware of the skin cancer risks and how to prevent skin cancer. For this first one has to understand how skin cancer develops. But before this one should have knowledge about the skin.

Our skin is composed of two layers. The outermost is called as the epidermis and the inner most as the dermis. The epidermis is composed of the three layers of cells. The uppermost are the flat squamos cells, the middle one are the round basal cells and the lower layers with the melanocytes cells which gives the color to the skin. Under the epidermis is the dermis which consists of the blood vessels, lymph and the glands. These glands produce sweat (to keep body cool) and the sebum (oily material to keep skin moisturized). Both these reach the upper layer of skin through pores. As everyone know that the cells are the building block of skin from the above part of the article. Skin cells will die and the new one will form.

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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.

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When you asked the doctors about their opinion, most of them say that the cancer blood test and few others are the first and the foremost step to help them to diagnose the problem. With the advent of 21^st century we are facing newer and newer diseases with endless challenges. One of them is the cancer and among them is the blood cancer. This is because the blood is the connecting tissue of the body and flow in every part of body. In case of cancer the blood cancer cells also travels along which does the most damage. Also this is a disease with no guarantee of cure.

Blood test alone can mark the presence of the cancer in the body of any kind alone. If the doctor suspects the same, he can order the cancer blood test with few other necessary tests like urine analysis and biopsy of the suspicious part of body, to help in the diagnosis. These tests are very important as they give the doctors an insight about the internals of body and can be missing parts of the puzzle. But keep one thing in mind merely order of these tests by doctor doesn’t mean that the cancer is being diagnose and you have cancer.

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Blood is essential part of body. It has different components which are RBC, WBC, Platelets and Plasma. Plasma is the liquid part of blood. RBC is also called as monocytes and the WBC as the lymphoid. Lymphoid are more affected by diseases in children. Blood cancer is also called as Leukemia, which actually disturbs the normal functioning of the blood and in the end weakens the whole system. It is of two types Acute or Chronic. Both blood and urine test are conducted to get the insight about the disease. This is very important to know the stage of the disease.

Causes

There are various reasons due to which a person can fall prey to the cancer of the blood. These are

Weakened immune system – this may be happen to a person because of variety of reasons such as the use of drugs in case of any other disease, radiations such as radiotherapy and disease which directly affect the immune system such as HIV.

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