By Peter Hutch | On April 28, 2008 | In Leukemia-Lymphoma-Cancer | Rated 
Leukemia is a type of cancer. Cancer is a group of more than 100 diseases that have two important things in common. One is that certain cells in the body become abnormal. Another is that the body keeps producing large numbers of these abnormal cells.
Leukemia cancer is of the blood cells. To understand leukemia, it is helpful to know about normal blood cells and what happens to them when leukemia develops.
By By Authors | On February 7, 2007 | In Leukemia-Lymphoma-Cancer | Rated
Nowadays, cancer is one of the most serious problems in medicine.Specialists try to discover new treatments. In clinics, the patients with cancer that start a new treatment are closely followed. Physicians determine the optimal dose which have the minimal side effects and offers the most numerous chances of survival.
By By Authors | On February 7, 2007 | In Leukemia-Lymphoma-Cancer | Rated
First occurring signs in the development of acute forms of leukemia are bruising and bleedings caused by the decreased number of platelets, fatigue and pales due to the anemia caused by insufficient red blood cells, reoccurring infections and late healing due to abnormal number and function of white blood cells.
By By Authors | On February 7, 2007 | In Leukemia-Lymphoma-Cancer | Rated
Mantle cell lymphoma is a non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma type of cancer and it represents affection of the lymphatic system. The lymphatic system, as part of the immune system, helps fighting against infections or foreign particles.
By By Authors | On February 7, 2007 | In Leukemia-Lymphoma-Cancer | Rated
RA, rheumatoid arthritis, is a disease that affects the cells around the joints. Rheumatoid arthritis involves a lot of pain but in the advanced stages can also mean immobility because in time, the tissues around the joints are deteriorating.
By By Authors | On February 7, 2007 | In Leukemia-Lymphoma-Cancer | Rated
The therapy of chronic myeloid leukemia with Gleevec (Imatinib mesylate) began to be used in patients in 2001 and seemed to be real success. Since that time, a clinical study revealed the efficiency of Gleevec in other cancer types as well such as in hypereosinophilic syndrome, another blood cancer.
By By Authors | On February 7, 2007 | In Leukemia-Lymphoma-Cancer | Rated
A rare form of the Non-Hodgkin disease is the Mantle cell lymphoma. This disease is quite dangerous because its tumor grows very fast and ends up affecting most of the organs. Generally, people are diagnosed with mantle cell lymphoma only when the disease has affected more organs and so, treating them is a little bit difficult because several areas of the body must be treated in the same time.
By By Authors | On February 7, 2007 | In Leukemia-Lymphoma-Cancer | Rated
Examined under the microscope, the Mantle cell lymphoma appears as an expansion of the mantle zone area of the lymph nodes.It is represented by a homogenous population of malignant small lymphoid cells, which are cancerous cells that travel from the bone marrow to the lymph nodes and spleen.
By By Authors | On February 7, 2007 | In Leukemia-Lymphoma-Cancer | Rated
Many types of cancer are known our days, but Hodgkin’s disease is one that can be cured if the medical advice and treatment is followed properly. Hodgkin’s disease, named after the physician that identified it, is cancer of the lymphoid tissue. First of all this disease affects the immune defense system, leading to a weak organisms’, unable to fight infectious particles found in human bodies.
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