Blood Cancer Open Access

Blood cancer is an umbrella term for malignancies of the blood, bone marrow or lymph nodes that affect normal blood corpuscle production or function. As these diseased blood cells proliferate, they cause life-threatening damage to the immune and circulatory systems. Blood cancer occurs when something goes wrong in the development of blood cells. Depending on the type of blood cancer, patients may have different symptoms, treatments and prognosis. Blood cancer may be described as either, acute, which means an aggressive or fast-growing cancer that spreads quickly, or chronic, which means a slower-growing or ‘indolent’ (lazy) cancer that takes longer to spread. Blood cancer occurs when the DNA changes (mutates) in the stem cells that make our blood cells in our bone marrow. The blood cells might start to develop abnormally or fail to die when they should. These are the ‘cancerous’ or cancer cells. Blood has three kinds of cells: white platelets that battle disease, red platelets that convey oxygen, and platelets that help blood cluster. Consistently, your bone marrow makes billions of fresh blood cells, and the greater part of them are red cells. At the point when you have leukemia, your body makes more white cells than it needs.

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