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When immature blood cells (blasts) are proliferating, ie, they reproduce uncontrollably in the bone marrow and accumulate both there and in blood, achieved replacing normal cells. This uncontrolled proliferation is called leukemia.

Cause of Leukemia

The cause of leukemia is unknown in most cases. However, it is shown that a condition is not hereditary or contagious. Most often occurs in previously healthy children. Being a proliferation of immature and abnormal cells in the blood, leukemia is considered a “blood cancer”.

Symptom of Leukemia

Early symptoms include fatigue, poor appetite and intermittent fever. As the condition progresses there is pain in the bones as a result of the multiplication of leukemic cells in the bone marrow. It also appears anemia, whose features include pallor, fatigue and poor exercise tolerance, the result of reduced red blood cells.
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