Acute Myelogenous Leukemia
Symptoms:
Acute lymphoblastic leukemia is a fast-growing type of leukemia that rapidly creates not fully developed immature blood cells. There are three symptoms of acute myelogenous leukemia that require a medical diagnosis or determines that you have acute myelogenous leukemia. The first symptom that will occur in leukemia is fatigue, or extreme tiredness and lack of energy you will feel all the time. You will also have infections that will occur more often repeatedly, often in the bones were leukemia is taking place. The third symptom is that, your body will also bruise easily, making you have red dots on your skin, and your skin will also lose its color and turn pale. People may also have in the …show more content…
Most people are diagnosed with acute myelogenous leukemia around the age of 67 years old. Acute myelogenous leukemia is more common than men than women, but for both the average lifetime risk is less than ½ for 1%. The American Cancer Society’s estimates that this year of 2017 about 62,130 people are going to be diagnosed with any type of leukemia and 24,500 people will die this year. They also estimate that 21,380 out of 62,130 of those people that are mostly adults will have acute myeloid leukemia, and almost 10,590 people will die, almost of them …show more content…
With more not fully developed white blood cells this can increase the thickness of the blood which can clog and block up the blood vessels and blood stream. If there are so much cancer cells in the bone marrow it can also clog up the marrow preventing it to create any blood cells at all making you have anemia and lack blood cells, this makes the body have less oxygen flowing through its