Patient's question:
A friend's daughter has been diagnosed with leukemia. My relatives have visited the little girl, and she looks very pitiful. As parents themselves, my relatives feel very heartbroken seeing her. They want to understand how leukemia can be prevented. What are the common causes of leukemia?Doctor's answer:
Leukemia is a type of blood cancer, which is a malignant clonal disease of self-renewing stem cells. Due to being a type of blood cancer, leukemia is characterized by increased cell self-renewal, uncontrolled cell division, division (splitting), and blocked apoptosis, causing cells to be stuck at different stages of cell growth and development. In leukemia, excessive fibrosis accumulation leads to the suppression of normal self-renewal and infiltration of other organs and tissues. The cause of human leukemia is not yet fully clear. It may be related to the following factors. Biological factors, mainly viruses and immune function abnormalities. After viral infection, the virus integrates and hides within the host cells. Under certain physical and chemical factors, it is activated and expressed, leading to leukemia or direct sepsis. At the same time, there are also physical factors, such as X-rays, gamma rays, and other ionizing radiation.