WHAT IS LEUKAEMIA? Leukaemia is a type of cancer of the blood and/ or bone marrow that develops when the bone marrow starts to make an abnormal amount of immature white blood cells called leukaemia cells or blasts. These immature cells cannot fight infections the way healthy white blood cells fight and they crowd out the other blood cells. Eventually, there aren’t enough red blood cells to supply oxygen, or enough platelets to clot blood, or enough normal white blood cells to fight infection.
And this starts to affect the way our major organs functions. WHAT ARE THE VARIOUS TYPES OF LEUKAEMIA? Leukaemia is grouped in two ways: How fast it develops and gets worse – Acute or Chronic Which type of blood cells are affected – Myeloid or Lymphoid Acute Leukaemia gets bad very fast and happens when most of the abnormal white blood cells stay immature and cannot carry on their normal functions;…
