Tuesday, June 26, 2007

Second chance for leukaemia man

A Malaysian doctor, accompanied by a volunteer from the buddhist Tzu Chi organisation, had brought back the 200ml stem cells which was kept in a box at a temperatureof -4c which was witness by many pressman. It was a race against time for the doctor who had to delivered the cell within 24 hours to kuala Lumpur, once it was brought from the hospital in Taiwan.

It differs from bone marrow transplant which requires anaesthesia and extraction of the stem cells directly from the bone marrowsaid the doctor who personally sent the stemcells to the hospital where a blood tranfusionwas successfully carried out on the leukaemia patients Kok Boon.

Kok Boon, a former thchnician was diagnoise with leukaemia in May last year and started six intensive chemotherapies since then.After a year long wait a donors were identified through Buddhist Tzu Chi stem cell centre in Taiwan.

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Tuesday, June 05, 2007

Some leukemia patients exhibit no symptoms

Leukemia is one of the most dangerous types of cancer that starts in the organs that make blood, namely the bone marrow and the lymph system and its divided into two types, the acute and chronic. Acute leukemias are the rapidly progressing leukemias, while the chronic leukemias progress more slowly. The cells thats produced blood cell in the bone marrow are called lymph system.

The signs and symptoms of leukemia are not quite specific. This is because some symptoms can be found in non-cancer patients as well. The symptoms of people with leukemia are weight loss, enlarge spleen lymph nodes, fatigue, hematoma, abnormal bleeding, abdominal pain, fever most of the time and complaining joint pain. Some leukemia patients exhibit no symptoms until the disease becomes chronic.

If you are suspected of having infected with leukemia disease the doctor will often recommend many testing before confirm that you leukemia patients. The doctor will do a blood test wherein any abnormalities related to leukemia can be seen. The two abnormalities are called anemia and leukocytes. Anemia means that the blood has very low levels of erythrocytes or red blood cells. Leukopenia means that the blood has very low levels of leukocytes or white blood cells.

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