Leukaemia
- Created by: catherine.pridmore
- Created on: 30-03-15 17:21
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- Symptoms
- Night sweats
- Loss of appetite/weight loss
- Fever/Chills
- Leukaemia
- Environmental Causes
- Children being around parents who smoke, during pregnancy or afterwards when the child is still very young
- Mothers having children who were still working in a painting or textiles environment whilst pregnant
- Mothers being exposed to solvents, paints and motor-vehicles (petrol) whilst being pregnant
- Exposure to radon (radioactive gas)
- Exposure to the radiation from nuclear power-stations and power-plants
- Medical Causes
- Conditions caused by abnormal chromosomes, such as down-syndrome
- Inheritance
- Having a gene change (mutation) known as the Philadelphia change
- Very high levels of white blood cells
- Similarities
- Leukaemia and testicular cancer both have the same fatigues/weakness symptom
- The exposure to smoke is an environmental cause for leukaemia, breast, bowel and testicular cancer
- Inheritance is a medical cause for all of the different cancer types
- Environmental Causes
- Bone/joint pain
- Abdominal pain
- Frequent infections
- Easy bruising or bleeding
- Petechiae (red spots under the skin)
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