does leukemia cause blindness?
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For much needed info on cancer go to the link below.
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take her to a doctor. It could be an issue that requires medical attention. However, having said this, it is also possible that she's extremely delicate and prone to bruising. Nonetheless, take her to a doctor- I had a friend whose kid bruised badly recently and he was diagnosed with leukemia- dont worry! it's probably not that bad but better safe than sorry
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Actually, I spent 2 yrs working in pediatric oncology, and that last answer was not accurate.  First of all, there is more than one type of leukemia, with 4 major types.  All are treated with chemotherapies, and in some patients stem cell transplants.\n\nThe most common leukemia, and most common childhood cancer overall, is acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL), which has a 98-99% rate of initial complete remission, and 80% are cured.\n\nAcute myeloid leukemia (AML) makes up only about 20% of leukemias.  It has an 80-90% rate of initial remission, and 40-50% rate of long-term remission.\n\nThere is also CLL and CML (C standing for chronic).  I'm not sure about the incidence rates, but they are much less common than ALL and AML, but I know that CLL has roughly a 75% cure rate and 40% for CML.\n\nThere are a number of factors that will vary between individual patients that will affect their chances of survival, such as stage at which the cancer is at diagnosis and the genetic subtypes of the cancer.  Plus, different patients respond differently to treatment.  For more exact predictions of survival chances, consult your pediatric oncologist.
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Legally blind does not mean you cannot see at all. There are many people who are legally blind, but they just tend to have really thick bifocals. My mom is legally blind and she just has certain limitations, such as not driving at night, etc.
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There are four major types of leukemia. And basically it is a cancer-like disease of bones and blood. See links for detailed info.
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Per the Leukemia and Lymphoma website(http://www.leukemia-lymphoma.org), they predicted 22,570 deaths in the USA.\n\nLeukemia is a blood/marrow disease and is not attributed to smoking. There is no known cause for Leukemia.
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yes......it has been said to cause blindness....lol
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Hi.   I am so sorry to hear about your diagnoses. \n\nFirst, lets talk about the macula.  This is the center of the vision.  When you look at your watch to tell time or read a book or look at details, you are using your macula.  It is a very small part of the retina, but very important for seeing details.   \n\nThere are two types of macular degeneration, dry and wet. The wet type usually comes on suddenly and there are a few treatments out there to slow vision loss.  The dry type is a progressive type and right now we have no treatment for it.  You have to be watched to make sure you do not have a sudden change in the vision so that you do not develop the wet type. You can use mini blinds or anything with straight edges to monitor your vision.  Check each eye every day and make sure that you are not noticing straight lines starting to curve or become distorted.\n\nNext, over the years there has been a ton of research on this condition because it is soooo common and sooooo frustrating.  The newest research says that taking a vitamin with Lutein and Zeaxanthin.  You can buy these over the counter at the pharmacy.  If you take a vitamin anyway you might as well take one with these ingredients in them. Studies are showing that this MAY slow the progression of the disease.  \n\nNow, one other thing, you do not go totally blind with macular degeneration.  People with advanced disease can still see to get around.  I am by no means downplaying the debilitation that this disease causes but the most common fear is blindness and this disease does not leave you completely without sight.  \n\nYou are also VERY nearsighted and this is of concern because of the length of the eye and the tendency to have retinal detachments or lattice degeneration, which is where the retina "stretches" and can cause a tear leading to detachment.  This is probably why they told you to stop with the TKD with the fear that you may get hit in the eye and with your eye being vulnarable already it could be bad.\n\nGood luck to you, I hope this information can help you somehow.
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Masturbation neither causes blindness nor does it cause mental retardation.\n\nAnd Jesus can do nothing but stare at you and the world from his picture.
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What is leukemia?\n\nLeukemia is cancer of the blood cells. Blood cells are made by your bone marrow, which is the soft tissue in the middle of most bones. In leukemia, the bone marrow starts making too many white blood cells, and sometimes these cells don't work right. These cells keep growing when they are supposed to stop. They also grow faster than your other cells. Over time, these abnormal cells crowd out your normal white blood cells, red blood cells, and platelets. \n\nYour white blood cells help your body fight infection. Your red blood cells make sure all your body parts have the oxygen they need. Your platelets keep you from bleeding too much. When the leukemia cells crowd out your normal cells, your blood cannot do its job. You may bleed or bruise easily, get sick more often, and feel very tired. \n\nAre there different types of leukemia?\n\nThere are four main types of leukemia. Acute leukemia gets worse very quickly. People with acute leukemia often feel sick right away. Chronic leukemia gets worse slowly, and you may not have any symptoms until later on in the illness. Those two kinds of leukemia are divided according to which kind of white blood cells are involved, lymphocytes or myelocytes.\n\nAcute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL). ALL is the most common leukemia in children. Adults also get it. \nAcute myelogenous leukemia (AML). AML affects both children and adults. \nChronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL). CLL is the most common leukemia in adults, especially older adults. Children almost never get it. It mostly affects people who are older than 55. \nChronic myelogenous leukemia (CML). CML occurs mostly in adults. \nWhat causes leukemia?\n\nExperts do not know what causes leukemia. They do not know why some people get it and others do not. It is likely that the different types of leukemia have different causes.\n\nResearch has shown that some people may be more likely to get leukemia. A risk factor is anything that raises your chance of getting a disease. Risk factors for leukemia include chemotherapy treatment, being exposed to large amounts of radiation or some chemicals in the workplace, and smoking and tobacco use.\n\nMost people who get leukemia do not have any risk factors.\n\nWhat are the symptoms?\n\nSymptoms may include:\n\nFevers and night sweats. \nFrequent infections. \nWeakness and fatigue. \nHeadaches. \nBruising of the skin and bleeding from the gums or rectum. \nJoint pain. \nSwelling in the belly or pain on the left side of the belly or in the left shoulder from a swollen spleen. \nSwollen lymph nodes in the armpit, neck, or groin. \nDecreased appetite and weight loss because you feel full and don't want to eat. \nThe chronic forms of leukemia often cause no symptoms at first.\n\nHow is leukemia diagnosed?\n\nIf your doctor thinks you might have leukemia, he or she will ask questions about your past and present symptoms, do a physical exam, and order blood tests.\n\nIf your blood tests are not normal, a test of cells from inside your bone marrow, called a bone marrow biopsy, is usually needed to diagnose leukemia.\n\nHow is it treated?\n\nTreatment depends on what kind of leukemia you have and how far along it is. Treatment can range from watchful waiting to a bone marrow transplant. Usually it includes chemotherapy and sometimes radiation treatments.\n\nFrequently Asked Questions\n\nLearning about leukemia: \n What is leukemia? \nWhat causes leukemia? \nHow can I prevent leukemia? \nWhat are the symptoms of leukemia? \nWhat increases my chances of getting leukemia? \nHow common is leukemia? \nWhat happens in leukemia? \n \nBeing diagnosed: \n How will my doctor diagnose leukemia? \nWhat is a bone marrow aspiration and biopsy? \n \nGetting treatment: \n How is leukemia treated? \nWhat type of medications will I need to take? \nWill I have to have radiation therapy? \nWhat is a bone marrow transplant? \n \nOngoing concerns: \n When should I call my doctor? \n \nLiving with leukemia: \n Wha
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Leukemia (or leukaemia) is a cancer of the blood or bone marrow characterized by an abnormal proliferation of blood cells, usually white blood cells (leukocytes). It is part of the broad group of diseases called hematological neoplasms.Damage to the bone marrow, by way of displacing the normal marrow cells with increasing numbers of malignant cells, results in a lack of blood platelets, which are important in the blood clotting process. This means people with leukemia may become bruised, bleed excessively, or develop pinprick bleeds (petechiae).\n\nWhite blood cells, which are involved in fighting pathogens, may be suppressed or dysfunctional, putting the patient at the risk of developing infections.\n\nForyour information I am giving the causes for getting this disease-\nNo one knows what causes leukemia. Researchers have strong suspicions about four possible causes. They are radiation, chemicals, viruses, and genetic factors. Leukemia, like other cancers, result from somatic mutations in the DNA which activate oncogenes or deactivate tumor suppressor genes, and disrupt the regulation of cell death, differentiation or division. These mutations may occur spontaneously or as a result of exposure to radiation or carcinogenic substances and are likely to be influenced by genetic factors. Cohort and case control studies have linked exposure to petrochemicals, such as benzene, and hair dyes to the development of leukemia.\n\nViruses have also been linked to some forms of leukemia. Certain cases of ALL are associated with viral infections by either the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV, responsible for AIDS) or human T-lymphotropic virus (HTLV-1 and -2, causing adult T-cell leukemia/lymphoma).-
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These are the known causes of AML:\n\nExposure to high doses of irradiation, as carefully studied in the Japanese survivors of atomic bomb detonations.\n\nExposure to the chemical benzene, usually in the work place.\n\nExposure to chemotherapy used to treat cancers such as breast cancer, cancer of the ovary or the lymphomas. Alkylating agents and topoisosomerase inhibitors are most frequently associated with higher risk.\n\nTherapeutic radiation, depending on the dose and setting.\n\nThe current causes of ALL are not known at this time.\n\nSuspected causes of Leukemia are viruses and exposure to environmental contaminants (pesticides, MTBE, etc...). My daughter Alex was diagnosed at the age of 10 months with AML. I personally believe that environmental contamination causes Leukemia (particularly in pediatric patients) but there's no definitive research at this time.\n\n-- T
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Since there are many forms of leukemias, there are many presentations, symptoms and signs. The most common are fatigue and malaise which usually comes from anemia (low red blood cells). Bruising due to low platelet counts because the bone marrow is putting all of its energy into pumping out white cells rather than platelets.Also it happens because the bone marrow goes haywire and instead of pumping out adequate numbers of red cells, it goes out of control and pumps out millions of white blood cells. There are different kinds of white cells, ie. lymphocytes, neutrophils, monocytes, basophils and eosinophils all having their own ways of controlling infections. Other symptoms are swollen bleeding gums, nose bleeds, tender swollen lymph nodes, chronic sore throats, bone pain, joint aches, fevers (undulating--up and down-up and down), multiple infections, weight loss, loss of appetite, blood in your stools, diarrhea, paleness, headaches. There are many more but these are the biggies. It is very easy to diagnose leukemia. A simple test called a CBC (complete blood count) which shows the number of white blood cells (leukocytes) and their makeup, lymphocytes, neutrophils, etc. can show a highly elevated number of white cells, lymphocytes and neutrophils. If this happens, it is almost always leukemia (the word is derived from latin, "leuko" meaning white and "emia" meaning blood. The doctor will then order whats called a peripheral smear to check the morphology, size, shape and certain internal characteristics of the white blood cells. This is done under a microscope by a trained Pathologist. The quicker you get in to get these simple tests the better off you will fare depending on the type of leukemia is diagnosed. Chemotherapy has come a long way in the last ten years and survival rates have jumped significantly. Bone marrow transplants can be performed and show very promising results in curing certain forms of leukemia.\nMy advice to you is get to your doctor and get a CBC with differential and a peripheral smear.\nI hope this helped answer your question and I hope I didnt scare you. Just wanted to tell you the truth in hopes of encouraging you to get to the doctor right away.\nTo your health.\nWarren Shaffer, M.D.
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(John 12:40) [Satan] has blinded their eyes and he has made their hearts hard, that they should not see with their eyes and get the thought with their hearts\n\n(2 Corinthians 4:4) the god of this system of things has blinded the minds of the unbelievers, that the illumination of the glorious good news about the Christ, who is the image of God, might not shine through\n\nThe cure is to study the bible with Jehovah's Witnesses.
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Hello,\n\nNo in 95% plus of cases there is no hereditary predisposition to leukemia.  The one exception is with identical twins, if one twin gets leukemia, the other twin has a higher 'risk' of getting the same leukemia, but it's not a certainty that they will.\n\nThere are hereditary cancer syndromes,(one in particular is called Li-Fraumeni syndrome) where a particular genetic defect is passed from parent to child, and then that child when they grow up, on to their children; that are associated with a high incidence of all types of different cancers, leukemia included.  These fortunately are not very common.  There also other 'genetic/hereditary' conditions that are associated with a higher risk of getting cancer such as Down's, Wiskott Aldrich, Neurofibromatosis syndromes.\n\nYou may be confusing 'hereditary' with 'genetic'.  Cancer is a genetic disease, meaning that there are genetic changes that occur within some cell that then transform it into a cancer cell.  However, these transformations occur after the individual is born, and are usually just plain bad luck; meaning they didn't get it from their parents.\n\nHope this helps.\n\nJohn
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Late stage (tertiary) syphilis can attack the brain and cause blindness. Syphilis is caused by a bacteria called Treponema pallidum, and it is curable with penicillin. HOWEVER, for patients with late stage syphilis, neurological symptoms (including blindness) CANNOT be reversed. Killing off the bacteria with antibiotics will stop progression of the disease, but the damage that has been done will be permanent.
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I don't know about the ra factor but I had e lasik for myopic astigmastism and it did no good.  it was the biggest wast of money I have ever spent!  Before I had it done I could at least read the caller Id on the phone, now I can't see that!