Acute Lymphocytic Leukemia Research Paper

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Acute Lymphocytic Leukemia is a blood disease primarily targeting the immature lymphocytes. When the amount of lymphocytes rise, there can be signs of fatigue, pale skin, and bone pain, just to name a few. The downfall with this type of disease is that if it is left untreated, the patient’s risk of fatality will immensely increase usually between a few weeks or months.Acute Lymphocytic Leukemia is white blood cell disease which affects the immature lymphocytes. According to the American Cancer Society, we do not fully understand what triggers the cells to become leukemic. There has been past research in which has found that there could be mutations within the DNA process that causes cancer to occur. There are certain cells within the human body that is responsible for the division and growth of cells called oncogenes or cause them to die at the right time called tumor suppressing genes (American Cancer Society, 2018). With each separation of cells, new DNA forms inside of the chromosome during the process of translocation. During this time, it may not always be perfect and is the reason why mutations happen. In addition, doctors have stated some other theories that may change the DNA code (Medscape, 2018). The most common translocation in Acute Lymphocytic Leukemia takes place between …show more content…
My mother was diagnosed with T cell large granular lymphocytic Leukemia, which is a rare form of Leukemia. Growing up, my mother was frequently hospitalized ranging from days to months at time. She was constantly in pain and always felt fatigued even when she got a full nights rest. My mother has to be extremely careful because she can bruise easy and with any little cut (even a paper cut) she has to make sure she continuously washes it out so she does not get an infection. She was told that the types of treatments they have would not work on her type of Leukemia. I hate to see her struggle and I hope that one day there will be a
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