There are many causes of high white blood cells. The most common cause is an infection and the condition will resolve with treatment of the infection. If it remains persistently elevated, it has to be investigated.
As there are many different types of white blood cells, it is important to find out which type is elevated. The treatment for them are all different. If the lymphocyte is elevated, it may be due to condition called chronic lymphocytic leukaemia. If the neutrophil and its precursors are elevated , it may be due to chronic myeloid leukaemia. However, if baby cells called 'blasts' are elevated, seek urgent attention as it may be due to acute leukaemia which will need immediate treatment.
There are many causes of anaemia. Some can be treated , some need a bone marrow transplant and some like thalassaemia major cannot be cured and the patient may need regular blood transfusions. It is important to find out the cause of the anaemia first to determine if it can be treated.
It is important to determine the severity of the haemophilia and this will guide the amount of replacement factor to correct the bleeding. It can be cured with a new technique called 'gene therapy' for younger patients. However, this procedure is still not available in Singapore. It may be available in the UK or US now.
There are more than 60 subtypes of lymphoma. Some can be cured and some cannot. Some may require a stem cell transplantation to improve the cure rate. Most important first step is to get the diagnosis correct, including the subtype . A dedicated lymphoma pathologist is import in
this regard. Then after, depending on the subtype, get advice from a lymphoma specialist. There have been a lot of recent improvements in the way we treat lymphoma and as such, the cure rates have improve significantly. It is important that the treating doctor is familiar with all these recent advances so he can give the best advice. It is also important that once a chemotherapy regimen is prescribed, the patient stay on course. sometimes patients don't do well because they delay chemo or do not follow the schedules of the chemo.
Bruises are not due to 'obstructed blood flow'.There are many causes of easy bruising. Best to get a blood test done to see if the platelet levels are normal and whether the blood is able to clot
properly. If there is any abnormality detected, any treatment is based on the cause of these abnormalities in blood results.
If your child is a female, anameia due to lack of iron from heavy menstruation is very common. Important to find out the cause of the anaemia to address it. First of all, do a blood test to check if your child has anaemia indeed.
The disease is usually not inheritable.Very rarely, it may run in families. There are many ways to treat the condition as there are now many classes of drugs available. Transplant is done for patients less than 65 years old as it may keep patients in remission longer . Overall there is not cure and the disease keeps relapsing. Newer drugs allow patients to enter further remissions nowadays.Unfortunately, many patients will require therapy continuously.
MDS cannot be cured. Early stages may not cause symptoms, but at more advanced stages, it may cause very low blood counts and the patients becomes very symptomatic. There are medications to improve the condition, but it cannot be cured by medications alone. The only way to cure it is with stem cell transplant.This is done for younger patients less than 65 years old.
If he has relapsed ALL, the standard treatment is chemotherapy followed by stem cell transplant from a sibling or a matched unrelated donor. This will ensure the best chance for cure.
" Dirty blood" is not a scientific term. Calves getting red after exercise may sometimes be due to venous insufficiency. If there is any concern, good to check with your doctor and do a blood test to make sure that everything is alright.
Chronic Myeloid Leukemia (CML) is now readily treatable with tyrosine kinase inhibitor such that it is considered a chronic disease and no longer a terminal cancer. The life expectancy now is almost the same as the healthy population.
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