What if a child visits his primary care physician with recurrent fatigue, sore joint, mild fever, gum bleeding etc seemingly common and uncomplicated symptoms? Can it be an indication for leukemia? What is the exact array of symptoms that needs thorough investigation for leukemia? Many of the childhood leukemia symptoms are overlapping to other disease conditions and thus generally overlooked by both patient and clinician.
As the onset of leukemia happens in the child’s bone marrow, leukemic cells soon crowd out the normal blood cell-making cells. As a consequence, The symptoms of leukemia are often caused by problems in the child’s bone marrow, which is where the leukemia begins. As leukemia cells build up in the marrow, they can crowd out the normal blood cell-making cells. As a result, a child may not have enough normal red blood cells, white blood cells, and blood platelets and this…
