In a healthy person's body, the bone marrow is the factory where blood and its components are made. Inside those spongy tissues, the bone synthesises both the red blood cells that function as our body's transport system and the white blood cells that protect our body like its military and defence system, locating and neutralising invaders.

• What is Leukaemia?

It is a type of blood cancer that usually affects a person's blood and bones. Because blood is produced in the bone marrow, when the bone marrow produces white blood cells, the produced white bloood cells are not normal, and such defective white blood cells can not effectively protect the body if called to fight an infection/invasion. They are too sick to work.

Types of Leukaemia:

Leukaemia attacks diffrent types of cells is different cases, so depending on the attacked cells, one form of leukaemia deffer from another. Acute Lymphoblastic Leukaemia is a type of cancer that affects the body's lymphoid cells weakening the immune system. If the condition specifically affects the myeloid cells, it is called Acute Myeloid Leukaemia. There is a form of the disease that affects a person's lymphoid cells this one is lymphocytic. While the Chronic myeloid leukaemia is a type of leukaemia that affects myeloid cells.

• What are some symptoms of leukaemia?

A person suffering from leukaemia has a transport system that is not effective, and sick soldiers to defend him, resulting in Fatigue, general weakness and pale skin. Because the white blood cells are defective, the sufferers often have frequent infections, they easily bruise or bleed, and often have swollen lymph nodes or spleen

• Is leukaemia curable?

Different forms of leukaemia will have different answers to this same question. Acute Lymphoblastic Leukaemia is treatable form of leukaemia using chemotherapy and targeted therapy.
If your case is acute myeloid leukaemia, the treatment will need some amount of chemotherapy and a stem cell transplant to address the issue. on the other hand, if the diagnosis is chronic lymphocytic leukaemia, it is often considered incurable with the current scientific knowledge and treatments.

• Preventing leukaemia?

It has always been said that that preventive measures are better than a cure. So to prevent the development of leukaemia, it is recommended that you adopt a safer lifestyle that involves eating a balanced diet and avoid smoking, exposure to benzene and some hazardous substances.

If there us a way you can avoid unnecessary medical radiation from X-ray and excessive CT scans, while you maintain a healthy weight because obesity may increase your risk of certain types of leukaemia.

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• Conclusion and Invitation

Things like your genetic makeup and age are variables that can influence the treatment, potentially leading to unpredictable treatment outcomes. But if you or your loved ones are currently suffering from leukaemia, find some consolation in the fact that most forms of leukaemia are treatable and teams are still researching better treatments.
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Media Credit

Composer	@manuelhooks
Graphics	Pixabay.com
Entry type	Contest
Organizer	@megareigns
Contest link	Click here
Community	africansonsteem
Date	Thus. 3rd Oct.
	(@) 2025