Leukemia is the most common malignant tumor of children, it ranked as the first children’s cancer, a serious threat to the lives of children. Up to now, the incidence of leukemia exact cause remains unclear, it is not possible to achieve complete prevention, can only be from some of the relevant factors for prevention.
1 and excessive radiation in the treatment of cancer or in the course of radiotherapy, the high-dose-ray exposure may affect the body.
2 excessive contact with certain chemicals such as phenol, and more such material in the decorative materials, such as paint, new furniture, chronic benzene poisoning damage the body’s main blood system.
3 certain anti-cancer drugs may lead to leukemia cells poisoned Wanhua Ji excessive use of drug therapy will increase the risk of leukemia. 4 genetic factors. Such as Down’s syndrome (Down’s Syndrome) children a higher risk of suffering from leukemia.
Early symptoms of leukemia in children is variable lazy, do not love, such as anorexia. Since then only in sexual looking pale, bone and joint pain, irregular fever, weakness, skin and bleeding gums, and so finally there liver, spleen, lymph nodes, repeated secondary infection, systemic failure, suffering from weight loss. So when the children have the following symptoms should seek medical treatment as soon as possible, carefully check —
(1) children, high fevers, because bone marrow from leukemia, when the mutation in the bone marrow cells into cancer cells, the separatist growth, gradually normal bone marrow cells “eat”, the body makes blood disorder, the normal leukocyte reduction, Instead of the normal WBC Feng Zhang, normal WBC number 4000-10000 in the following, and leukemia patients with cancer of the WBC sometimes as high as 100,000. As the WBC less normal, poor immunity, so be infected with a high fever.
(2) Since the normal function of the bone marrow suppression, making hemoglobin decrease, from children with anemia, pallor.
(3) generated by normal platelet inhibition to reduce significantly the number of platelets, blood coagulation damage, so the body will appear plaque deposition, gums, nose bleeding, and other places for no reason at all, it is very difficult to stop bleeding after injury.
(4) cells gradually infiltrating the liver and spleen, lymph nodes, children with abdominal distention, hepatosplenomegaly, swollen lymph nodes. Leukemia and other cancers different from its course of development time is short, short period of 2-3 weeks, the longest and only 3-4 months, we can not delay treatment time, when found above symptoms, should immediately to the hospital for further checks , A clear diagnosis.