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Okay, leukemia was probably one of the
knowns that you starred in the beginning.
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Most everyone has heard that term but
you might not quite understand what it is.
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It's called leukemia because it begins in the
blood-forming tissue of the patient's bone marrow.
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Okay, it doesn't solid tumors but it
really wreaks havoc on your body
You end up with large and really large
numbers of abnormal white blood cells
because leukemia cells and leukemia blast cells
are what really messed up those white blood cells.
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they build up in the blood and the bone marrow.
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Okay, so I don't have tumors with leukemia but I end
up with these large numbers of abnormal white cells,
we call them leukemia cells and leukemic blast cells.
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that's what builds up in your bone and
blood marrow (blood and bone marrow).
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So now you don't have enough normal cells
so you end up with really poor oxygenation,
and they're at a bleeding risk
and they can't fight off infection.
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Look at the normal picture there,
that's how things are supposed to be.
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Look at what it looks like for leukemia because
these cells are building up in the bone marrow
that's why you don't have the ability to have good
oxygenation, you're an increased risk for bleeding
and you can't fight off infection
because it hits all of the blood cells.
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So a sign we'd look for is we'd look at
your CBC, look at your white cell count,
we will look at the different types of white cells.
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We'd know that things are not right but since it
impacts the bone marrow, it hits all of those cells.
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Now lymphoma begins in the lymphocytes.
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Remember those are types of white blood
cells, we're talking about the T cells or the B cells.
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So abnormal lymphocytes build up in the
lymph nodes and the lymph vessels and organs.
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So there's two types: Hodgkin's
lymphoma or non-Hodgkins lymphoma.
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So Hodgkin's lymphoma comes from
Reed-Sternberg cells, they usually form from the B cells.
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Non-Hodgkin's lymphoma are large group
of cancers that start in the lymphocytes.
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They grow either quickly or slowly.
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I know that's a lot help but there's a
big variance between different patients.
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These also form from B cells or T cells.
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So lymph cells, we're talking about lymphoma, remember
that it comes from T cells or B cells - those lymphocytes.
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and have abnormal lymphocytes build up in the
lymph nodes and the lymph vessels and organs.
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You have Hodgkin's lymphoma and non-Hodgkin's
lymphoma and trust me, you're really don't want either one.p
Now let's look at multiple myelomas.
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This begins in the plasma cells.
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So myeloma cells, they are these abnormal
plasma cells buildup in the bone marrow to form tumors
throughout the body.
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This is very difficult for patients to
deal with, it's extremely painful too.
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So it begins in the plasma cells,
you end up with these myeloma cells.
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They're abnormal plasma cells that buildup in the
bone marrow and this makes tumors all over the body.
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So it's also known as plasma
cell myeloma and Kahler disease.
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So multiple myeloma starts in the plasma cells
and it spreads its nastiness throughout the body.