Sunday, August 18, 2013

Leukemia:Test and Treatment


Additional tests: Diagnosis

    CBC - NFS:
    The prevalence of one or three ancestors.
    Thrombocytopenia.
    Anemia.
    The presence of immature cells and abnormal.
    Myelography: myelogenous or lymphocytic: infiltration of immature cells, can cause cancer in the blood.
    Immunological investigation: Information about a particular type of leukemia.
    Cellular and genetic analysis: diagnostic accuracy.
    Balancing between hemostasis full.
    Metabolic balance (Hypo / hyperkalemia, hypocalcemia, and high uric acid).
    Evaluation of the heart.
    Serological evaluation.


Treatments

    The treatment is done in two phases, but mainly based chemotherapy:

    Induction therapy (high-dose chemotherapy) is to obtain a remission of clinical and laboratory full through the destruction of healthy cells and malignant. (Preparation aplasia)
    Central catheter for the passage of blood, foods and pharmaceuticals.
    Parenteral nutrition.
    Protective custody to prevent nosocomial infections.
    Antibiotics.
    Chemotherapy intravenously.
    Standardization of treatment: chemotherapy, radiation therapy and antimitotic remove the remaining blasts can cause relapse.
    Maintenance therapy: Antimitotic to prevent relapse.
    Risk of relapse:
    Marrow relapse: chemotherapy or bone marrow transplants.
    Meningeal nervous rechallenge relapse or bone marrow transplants.
    Testicular cancer relapse chemotherapy, radiation therapy, or bone marrow transplant.

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