Hairy cell leukemia (HCL) is a rare blood cancer and is growing at a slow pace due to spinal cord cells produce too many B cells (lymphocytes), one type of white blood cells that fight infection in charge. When viewed with a microscope, it looks abnormal B cells and hair.
Along with the increase in the number of leukemia cells, automated white blood cells, red blood cells and platelets are also the less healthy because of being pressured by the leukemia cells.
This cancer is more common in men, particularly middle-aged or elderly men.
Until now, the causes and cures of this disease has not been found. Hairy cell leukemia is considered as one of chronic disease because the disease is never completely lost though perhaps in a few years of treatment dose reduced
Cause
Hairy cell leukemia is caused by mutations in DNA that cause cells to spinal cells produce too many white blood cells can not work properly. But experts do not know what the cause DNA mutations experienced by cells of the spinal cord.
Symptom
- Weight loss
- Limp
- Recurrent infections
- Easy bruising
- Fatigue
- Feels like fullness in the stomach, but causing discomfort so reluctant to continue eating
Treatment
- Surgery
- Biological therapy is interferon and Rituximab
- Chemotherapy is the use of Cladribine and pentostatin
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