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• Blood cancer is the common name for a group of diseases that doctors commonly call hemoblastoses. They can have slightly different symptoms and each kind of disease can have its own differences. However, they are united by one thing - the mechanism of their occurrence.

CAUSES

• heredity (up to 40% of cases of leukemia due to ultraviolet radiation in tanning salons
• some viral diseases;
• poor environmental conditions;
• bad habits;
• radiation exposure of the body, for example, in the treatment of other types of cancer;
• immunodeficiency conditions;
• exposure to toxic substances

SIMPTOMS

• daytime drowsiness and / or insomnia;
• chronic (within a few weeks) fever to a subfebrile level;
• excessive sweating, especially at night;
• pallor and dryness of the skin;
• decreased appetite and weight;
• headache;
• impaired memory and attention;
• change in taste.

TREATION

• Leukemia is treated mainly with chemotherapy and radiation therapy. Treatment with drugs - cytostatics can slow the reproduction of pathological cells, prevent the formation of metastases.

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