Immature white blood cells begin multiplying, crowding out healthy cells, leaving the individual powerless to fight infections. While leukemia is thought of as a disease affecting children, ten times as many adults as children contract the disease, and it affects men more often than women. The symptoms of Leukemia can include easy bruising, fatique, susceptibility to infections, excessive bleeding, high fever, and weakness.
Early detection is important.
Lymphoma, a general term for a group of cancers that originate in the lymphatic system , which includes hundreds of bean-size lymph nodes. These nodes are present throughout the body, especially the spleen, gastrointestinal tract, skin, and the thymus in children. Myeloma is a cancer of the plasma cells , a type of white blood cell found in many tissues of the body, but mainly in the bone marrow. In myeloma, a plasma cell becomes malignant. The onset of myeloma interfaces with normal production of antibodies and makes myeloma patient susceptible to infections.