How to treat leukemia
What are the symptoms of leukemia?
Some of the symptoms of leukemia may include:
- Feeling tired
- Fever or night sweats
- Easy bruising or bleeding
- Weight loss or loss of appetite
- Petechiae, which are tiny red dots under the skin. They are caused by bleeding.
Other leukemia symptoms can be different from type to type. Chromic leukemia may not cause symptoms at first.
Currently, there are two ways to treat leukemia: chemotherapy and bone marrow transplantation.
- Chemotherapy is a treatment for leukemia in the early stages to support the disease in remission, i.e., no cancer cells are found in the blood and less than 5% of the bone marrow is found, including normal blood cell production, both red blood cells, white blood cells and platelets.
- Bone marrow transplantation After receiving chemotherapy until the disease has calmed down, treatment with bone marrow transplantation ทางเข้า ufabet is initiated. Currently, stem cell transplantation is available. Previously, only the bone marrow of siblings with HLA compatibility was required. Currently, it is possible to use the bone marrow of siblings who have HLA in common, or parents to give to children and children to parents, giving the same chance of complete cure. As for those who do not have siblings, they can find donors from the Thai Red Cross Society. Which has a registry of those who wish to donate stem cells.
The best prevention for leukemia and all types of cancer is early detection and treatment because the body responds and has a higher chance of being cured than in the advanced or terminal stages. However, most often, by the time patients realize they have cancer, the symptoms are already in a much advanced stage. Therefore, if we observe abnormalities in our bodies and have health check-ups at least once a year to find abnormalities in our bodies that may occur without us knowing, especially cancer, the sooner it is detected, the sooner it can be treated.