Juliana Scaglionethe Big Brother participant recognized as Rage, announced this Monday that he has leukemia. The woman had left her 5-month isolation to undergo studies at a clinic and today she broke the news.
“Have leukemia level one. I don’t have to treat it: every month I have to draw blood. It may be that at 40 years old I hit level three, and I can’t train what I trained before; “It is a healthy life,” Furia reported.
Santiago del Moro, driver of the cycle, read the doctors’ statement and revealed: “At the moment it does not require specific treatment, but it does require monthly medical monitoring that includes a laboratory check. That is to say, Juli has to have a blood sample taken once a month. “She can lead a normal life and should consult for changes in her state of health or the appearance of symptoms.”
What is leukemia? According to specialists from Mayo Clinic“is he cancer of the tissues that make up blood in the body, including the bone marrow and lymphatic system. There are many types: some forms are more common in children and others occur mainly in adults.
“The leukemiagenerally involves the white blood cells, that they are powerful infection fighters; They usually grow and divide in an organized way, as the body needs them. But in people who have leukemia, the bone marrow produces an excessive number of abnormal white blood cells that do not function properly,” the experts add.
Although the specific type of leukemia that Furia has was not known through his precise diagnosis, this condition could be associated with Chronic lymphocytic leukemia, since it has two types of categorization by stage, being that at level 1 “some people can live for years without treatment, although over time, the majority will need one.” “In most cases the patient receives treatment intermittently for years. Treatment may be stopped for a while, but it never really ends. Life after cancer means returning to some activities you used to do, as well as making some new decisions,” the American Cancer Society indicates.
And they add that the classification of each stage of the disease, when carried out using Rai staging, “is based on the number of lymphocytes in the blood and bone marrow,” while in Binet staging “it is classified by the groups of affected lymph tissue and whether or not the patient has anemia.”
In any case, from MedlinePlus, the site of the United States National Library of Medicine, they postulate that leukemias are divided into two main types: acute (progressing rapidly) and chronic (progressing more slowly). “The tYoThe main types of leukemia are acute lymphocytic leukemia (ALL), acute myelogenous leukemia (AML), chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL), and chronic myelogenous leukemia (CML),” they point out.
In Mayo Clinic They specify that the symptoms of leukemia vary depending on the type. Common ones include fever or chills; persistent fatigue, weakness; frequent or severe infections; weight loss without trying; swollen lymph nodes, enlarged liver or spleen; easy bleeding and bruising; recurrent nosebleeds; small red spots on the skin (petechia); hyperhidrosis, especially at night; and pain or tenderness in the bones.”
“The symptoms of leukemia are usually vague and non-specific. “You may overlook the early symptoms of leukemia because they resemble those of the flu and other common illnesses,” they add from the American health center.
The United States National Institutes of Health (NIH) points out that treatments for leukemia depend on the type you have, the severity, your age, your general health and other factors. “Some treatments may include chemotherapy, radiotherapy, chemotherapy with stem cell transplant; and targeted therapy, which uses drugs or other substances that attack specific cancer cells with less damage to normal cells,” they explain.
The Spanish Association against Cancer reports that confirmation of the diagnosis of leukemia “requires more direct and detailed studies to be carried out on the state of the cells in the bone marrow, since it is the place where the cancer has originated. To do this, a bone marrow aspirate or biopsy must be carried out, for which a puncture must be performed, under local anesthesia, of the inside of the bone.”
Likewise, they indicate that “the puncture is usually performed in the posterior iliac crest, in the back of the pelvis, although it can also be performed in the sternum, which is located in the upper part of the chest. These two places are where most bone marrow tends to concentrate. Sometimes in children, the sample can also be obtained from the highest part of the tibia, near the knee.”
