Blood cancer

Blood cancer is a disease that affects how body produces blood cells and how well those cells work. Most blood cancers start in your bone marrow. This is the soft, sponge-like material in the center of bones. Blood cancer happens when something hinders how body makes blood cells. The cancer cells can’t do the jobs normal blood cells do. Instead, the abnormal blood cells multiply unchecked and overwhelm the normal ones. Like any type of cancer, blood cancer is a crucial diagnosis. But the good news is that more and more people are surviving blood cancer. There are three types of blood cancers, which are leukemia, lymphoma and Myeloma. Rarer forms comprise of Myeloproliferative neoplasms (MPN) and Myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS). Symptoms comprise of fatigue, shortness of breath, swollen lymph nodes, frequent infections, bone pain, drenching night sweats, enlarged liver or spleen, joint pain, persistent fever, unexplained weight loss, unusual bruising or bleeding (warning signs include tiny red skin spots or purplish skin patches). To prevent blood cancer, healthy lifestyle is needed. Thank you.