Leukemia

Leukemia, also known as the blood, that generate a lot of abnormal white blood cells in bone marrow, and normal white blood cells, red blood cells and platelets generate reduced. Leukemia cells into the liver, spleen, and lymph nodes. Acute Lymphocytic Leukemia is the main type of leukemia in children.
　
Leukemia symptoms are:
　
1, colour white.
　
2, skin appear pink or purple spots.
　
3, skin leg bruises easily.
　
4, listless.
　
5, neck, armpit and groin lymph node swelling.
　
6, fever.
　
7, limb skeletal and joint pain.
　
8, gingival bleeding.
　
If you suspect your child may be suffering from leukemia, then you should immediately take the child to check hospital Hematology/Oncology. Treatment of acute lymphoblastic leukemia can be divided into two stages:
　
The first phase, usually last for a few weeks, usually drugs kill leukemia cells of abnormal. It needs to take to the bone marrow examination without any exception. At this point, the children feel ease now, called remission.
　
The second phase, continue for another 2 years, on the intensive drug therapy for patients, drugs at this time focused on killing all still exist in the leukemia cells in the body.
　
Children should try to maintain a normal life, because drug treatment may decrease child resistance to infection, so he should try to avoid those infected people, such as chicken pox or measles.
　
Current treatment, has been able to give 60–70% up in children with acute lymphoblastic leukemia full recovery.