2006-06-24 02:51:37 · 3 answers · asked by Bonnie R 2 in Health ➔ Diseases & Conditions ➔ Other - Diseases
When you have leukemia, your bone marrow starts making immature white blood cells and they pop out into the blood stream, and they show up on a CBC like up in the thousands.
2006-06-24 02:57:33 · answer #1 · answered by happydawg 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
In leukemia, abnormal cells crowd up in the bone marrow, aand normal cells decrease. Normal cells include red cells, with hemoglobin to carry oxygen, white cells to fight off infection and platelelets to stop bleeding. When these cells are low, there will be anemia, frequent , severe infections and bleeding which is spontaneous or continuous and severe after minor injury. All these problems can kill. Abnormal white cells do not serve any purpose.
2006-06-24 13:33:25 · answer #2 · answered by yakkydoc 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
they do all sorts of things... they cause tumor burdon in the lymph nodes/bone marrow.
they clog things up (strokes/heart attacks)
they consume huge amounts of your energy (wasting)
2006-06-24 13:11:07 · answer #3 · answered by dockyortho 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋