Blood Cancer | Types, Latest Treatment Plan, Life Expectancy - Dr.Mangesh P Kamath | Doctors' Circle

Dr. Mangesh P Kamath | Appointment booking no: 9900587736, 9900613143
Website: drmangeshkamathcancercare.com
Senior Consultant & Medical Director | Medical and HematoOncologist, BMT Physician,
Healius Cancer & Hematology Clinic, Banashankari Stage II, Bengaluru
Blood is an organ of the body and it constitutes the RBCs, the red blood cells, the WBCs, the white blood cells and the platelets. The blood helps in transfer of nutrients. The three components it is important to understand that they have a different role to play. The RBCS carry oxygen form the lungs to various parts of the body and they help to nourish the cells. WBC’s help to protect the body from outside source of infection. The platelets are important to make sure too much blood is not most when your skin gets injured. So these are the 3 components. Blood Cancer is a generic term and it encompasses the cells mentioned. In the bone marrow there are certain mother cells that are omnipotent and they can form RBC’s, WBC and platelets and they can mature into these 3 components. So when the intermediate cells are damaged through radiation, chemicals then they form cancer of these cells. So it is important to understand that the cancers have genetic damage that leads to genetic damage and the normal stem cells lead to abnormal stem cells. So these stem cells can continue to replicate without any break and invade those organs they can seize to function as cells in the body that are known to have specific advantages’. So is Blood Cancer only 1 type? We have various types of Blood Cancer. Blood Cancer can be classified into lymphomas and leukemia. Lymphomas are cancers of the lymph nodes. lymph nodes help to check the toxic substance surround the organ. The lymph nodes are made of multiple WBC and they attack the organ that they are assigned to protect. Leukemias are the traditional blood cancer. This is the component the makes it deficient for the body to function. There are 4 major classification of leukemias. There is acute leukemias that is subdivided into acute myeloid leukemia and acute lymphoblastic leukemia. You have the chronic leukemias divided into chronic myeloid leukemia and chronic lymphocytic leukemia. The chronic leukemia is highly controllable where we find patients with adequate therapy where patients can be treated for a long duration. chronic myeloid leukemia people live long with this. chronic lymphocytic leukemia was also considered very difficult to manage and now can be cured with medicines. It can be cured with bone marrow transplant. This is why it is delegated to the bottom in case of chronic leukemias. Sometimes chronic leukemia can attain aggressive form. Acute leukemia can be very aggressive and if not treated, patients can die. The acute lymphoblastic leukemia are also very aggressive and also it can be classified based on age of onsidte. When it occurs in infants and younger children, if it occurs in older adults. Lot of advanced therapeutics are available where as acute leukemia are converted. Upto 80% of the patients of acute lymphoblastic leukemia can survive. We have great technologies available by which we can convert these leukemias and cure them. So much of research is going on. People ask if Blood Cancer is curable, I will say yes, it depends on the Blood Cancer type and the aggression, type of therapy. Many Blood Cancer patients survive. The treatment of Blood Cancer can be divided into 3 categories., in chronic lymphocytic leukemia or chronic myeloid leukemias are by tablets or targeted monoclonal therapy. In acute leukemias is chemotherapy and bone marrow transplantation.

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