Blood is a fluid that drives the heart and carries oxygen and nutrients to the body, but the blood also can get sick and cause cancer. The blood cancer is a cancer that attacks the lymphatic system, blood or bone marrow and on this basis can be classified three types of cancer: leukemia, multiple myeloma and lymphoma.
- Leukemia is the type of cancer that originates in the bone marrow and is characterized because there is a rapid amount of white blood cells do not mature, commonly affects children.
- Multiple Myeloma: It mainly affects adults and is generated by an overgrowth of plasma cells which makes it difficult to produce white blood cells and platelets.
- Lymphoma is a cancer that affects blood lymphocytes and inflamed lymph nodes.
Some of the symptoms that occur in cancer of the blood include: anemia, bone pain in the abdomen or back, sudden bleeding, bruising, loss of appetite and weight, difficulty breathing, fatigue, fever, and others.
Some of the clinical tests to diagnose cancer are blood tests, aspiration and / or bone marrow biopsy, lymph node biopsy, MRI and radiography.
The treatment continues to fight blood cancer will depend on the progression of cancer, although used chemotherapy, blood transfusions, bone marrow transplant, specific drugs, biological therapy, among others.
Cancer of the blood must be supervised by specialist physicians as are the oncologists or hematologists and it is they who provide the necessary assistance to those suffering from this disease.