Beware Symptoms of Bone Marrow Cancer

What is Bone Marrow Cancer


Beware Symptoms of Bone Marrow Cancer

Disease of bone marrow cancer is rare. The disease mostly affects people aged around 50-70 years. Cases of bone marrow cancer that is most common metastasis, which is cancer originating from other parts of the body and spread to the spine. When cancer spreads or originated in this area, usually affecting one or more parts of the bone marrow. If someone developed a bone marrow cancer, either primary or secondary, it will show different symptoms of the disease.

Bone marrow cancer will lead to the destruction of all bone cells. Even worse would be to attack the bone marrow, and even lower bone was affected. Patients with bone marrow cancer feel a sense of a very sick, tired, less sensitivity, and worse still we will be paralyzed.

Disease of bone marrow cancer often appears without symptoms, but some people feel the constant pain in the bones. The pain can be a shooting pain feeling faint or sharp pain in the lower back which then spread to the buttocks and legs. Painkillers or anti-inflammatory used to control symptoms and other treatment (bisphosphonate drugs) may be given to slow the progression of the disease.

Symptoms of Bone Marrow Cancer


Beware Symptoms of Bone Marrow Cancer
The most common sign of bone marrow cancer is pain in the neck or back. The pain will be persistent and accompanied by other symptoms. This pain can be just in the rear area; can also spread to other limbs.

Development depends only on the location of the abnormal growth. If a small amount of cancer causing inflammation and irritation, pain usually remains behind.

If the bone marrow cancer hit a nerve, pain diffuses out into "branches" are related. No matter the source of pain, spinal cancer causing chronic discomfort.

Bone marrow cancer can also cause incontinence. This is very similar to the symptoms of weakness, due to pressure on certain nerves in the spinal cord that are responsible for controlling the performance of the bladder and bowel.

If the impulse is interrupted, can cause a person to lose control of their bladder, bowel, or both.

Bone Marrow Cancer Stages


Stages of cell growth of bone marrow cancer, beginning with the growth of plasma cells, which is one part of the white blood cells in the bone marrow that is not normal. The plasma cells in normal conditions are necessary, because it produces proteins called antibodies, as part of the immune system.

In patients with myeloma, plasma cells exceeding normal levels. Than five percent plasma cells in the bone marrow should be, in cancer patients the levels can be two-fold.

These abnormal plasma cells are not only dwells in the bone marrow, but also in other parts of the body, and are often found in the pelvis, ribs, and skull-bones as it is called multiple myeloma. Antibodies produced increased, too.

Had abnormal antibodies accumulate in the blood or urine, sometimes found also in areas other than bone, such as in the lungs and reproductive organs. Fraction of abnormal antibodies (Bence-Jones protein) often accumulates in the kidneys, damaging and lead to kidney failure.

In addition, patients have anemia, because normal cells producing red blood cells in the spinal cord replaced by abnormal cells. Which thickens the blood (hyper viscosity syndrome) can also affect blood flow to the brain, skin, fingers and toes, and nose.

Along with the development of cancer of the spine, a person may suffer from paralysis. Depending on the severity of the cancer, paralysis can be isolated to one limb.

Determine the size and location of the growth of the number of paralysis, because the cancer can get to the point where the nerves seem to break or lesion has been formed on the nerve itself.

Myeloma treatments such as chemotherapy are done these days limited to prevent or reduce the symptoms and complications, slow disease progression, and destroy the abnormal plasma cells.

In addition to chemotherapy, stem cell therapy is known as a way to reduce and bone marrow cancer. Cancer that has lost it's going to show up again.

The bone marrow cancer is one of the rarest diseases in the world. Imagine only 2-3 people per 100,000 people who may be exposed to this cancer. The cause and the remedy have not been found.

2 comments:

  1. What are the risks of bone marrow donation?

    I want to ask is there any risks or side effects that can be experienced by patients or donor after surgery bone marrow donor? If so, what was, dangerous are they, and what no taboos postoperatively for both parties? thank you

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    1. Bone marrow is where red blood cells made​​. So donors had impaired risk cycle of red blood cells and can cause anemia, etc.. If there is a bone marrow infection, the patient can be infected. Abstinence as operations in general. Eating mushy food and rest.

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