Several Types of Blood Cancer

In general, leukemia is classified into two types, namely, the types of acute and chronic type.

1.      Blood Cancer Chronicle: In the early stages of the disease, leukemia cells can work a few normal white blood cells. Generally, patients had no specific symptoms. Doctors detect early cancer of the blood column in the routine examination. Slowly chronic leukemia will probably get worse. To increase the number of leukemia cells in the blood will lead to symptoms such as people with swollen lymph glands or infection. By the time symptoms appear, usually mild and will get worse gradually.

2.      Cell cancer of the blood acute leukemia are not able to do the work of normal white blood cells. The number of leukemic cells have increased exponentially. Acute leukemias progress rapidly, and deteriorate Semak have the option to turn it off. The ability of the patient may die if not treated seriously in a couple of weeks to days.

Leukemia, a disease that even other experts classify the disease according to the type of white blood cells affected by, or lymphocytes, or myeloid.

1. Leukemia that affects lymphoid cells called lymphoid, lymphocytic leukemia or lymphoma.

2. Leukemia that affects myeloid cells is called myeloid or acute myelogenous leukemia.

According to several previous descriptions can conclude diambilan that, in general, there are four types of leukemia are known:

1. Chronic lymphocytic leukemia: occurs most often in the elderly (55 years). Sometimes it also affects young adults and rarely in children.

2.  Chronic myeloid leukemia: often occurs in adults, very little occurs in children.

3. Acute lymphoblastic leukemia is a type of leukemia occurs most often in children also occurs in adults, especially 65 years or more.

4.  Acute myeloid leukemia: This type is more common in adults than children.