Leukemia is a cancer of the blood or bone marrow. Bone marrow produces platelets. Leukemia can happen when there is an issue with the generation of platelets. It for the most part brings about the generation of unusual leukocytes, or white platelets. The abnormal cells in leukemia don’t work similarly as typical white platelets.
Long-term sleep disruptions may raise the risk of some cancers. But sleep and cancer are intertwined in other ways too. Getting a good night’s sleep is difficult during cancer treatment and can be a lifelong challenge for survivors.
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As indicated by current assessments, just around one out of 10 instances of cancer is related with inherited inclination. Cancer isn’t inherited.
Cancer is a typical disease, and pretty much every family has various individuals who experience the ill effects of cancer. Notwithstanding, this does not generally imply that families have an inherited inclination to cancer. By far most of cancer cases start from the joined impact of genetic just as outside impacts, for example, ecological and way of life factors.
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The World Cancer Research Fund appraises that about 20% of all cancers analyzed in the US are identified with high body fat, physical latency, excess liquor consumption, as well as poor nourishment, and in this way could be counteracted.
The prevalent saying ‘Let nourishment be thy prescription and medication will be thy sustenance’ holds a ton of water in our regular daily existence, yet deplorably the turn around is the request of the day for many in our present reality as their decisions of nourishment is their demise particularly in the Oncology field. Today, we would take a focus at the parts of our eating regimen that spot us at high danger of developing cancer.
Chemicals are found in ordinary things, for example, nourishments, individual items, bundling, doctor prescribed medications, and family unit and yard care items. While a few chemicals can be hurtful, not all contact with chemicals is hazardous to your wellbeing.
Knowing chemicals and those which cause cancer is one of our most prominent logical difficulties. Individuals are presented to follow measures of numerous chemicals consistently. These regular exposures are normally too little to even think about causing medical issues.
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Infectious organisms play an etiologic role in roughly 20% of cancer cases around the world. Eleven pathogens (seven infections, three parasites, and one bacterium) are known to add to oncogenesis either straightforwardly by means of the statement of their protein items or in a roundabout way through constant irritation.
The agents that cause cancer incorporate Helicobacter pylori (the microbes that cause stomach ulcers), hepatitis B and C (infections that cause worsening of the liver) and human papilloma infections (explicitly transmitted infections that cause a few cancers, strikingly cervical cancer in ladies).
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Yeeehhh!!! I am dead! Mo Ku o!
Doctor! Doctor!! Doctor!!!
Those were the screams and agitations of Yetunde, a 17 year old girl at the General hospital, Gbadaga. She had just received a life changing news, she has been orphaned.
Radiation of specific wavelengths, called ionizing radiation, possess sufficient energy to harm DNA and result to cancer. Ionizing radiation incorporates radon, x-beams, gamma beams, and different types of high-energy radiation. Lower-energy, non-ionizing types of radiation, for example, obvious light and the vitality from mobile phones, have not been found to cause disease in individuals. Up to 10% of intrusive malignancies are identified with radiation presentation, explicitly ionizing radiation.
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Prostate cancer, a chronic disease and most common malignancy found in men worldwide. In Nigeria, prostate cancer cases number to more than a 100,000 annually.
The big questions are:
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If your child or teen has a blood disease or cancer, a pediatric hematologist/oncologist has the experience and qualifications to evaluate and treat your child or teen. The unique nature of care of children or teens with blood diseases and cancer is learned from advanced training and experience in practice. Pediatric hematologists/oncologists treat children and teens from birth through young adulthood.
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