Im worried about my sister possibly having leukemia.!
Question: Im worried about my sister possibly having leukemia!.
My sister is 36 years old and hasnt been feeling well for a while now but they have just been mild things like feeling really weak and tired and she has been having some digesting problems along with other small things but here recently, her hair has been falling out and its getting worse everyday!. Its falling out completley from the root!. She doesnt even have to touch it and it falls out!. She went to the doctor and they took some test but I dont know if they tested for cancer or not and didint want to ask her that because I dont want to scare her but Im really worried that it may be leukemia!. Can Leukemia make your hair fall out before you start recieving treatments if that is what it could be!? I have no idea what could be wrong with her and Im really worried!. Please helpWww@Answer-Health@Com
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Hair falling out is usually a sign of either alopecia (basically going bald), thyroid probs or an autoimmune condition!. I'm not a doctor but i'm pretty sure leukemia doesn't cause your hair to fall out!. Chemotherapy certainly does though! Leukemia can make you tired, bruise very very easily and lots of other things!. It may also cause no symptoms!.
My mate who is 27 had exactly the same thing, it turned out to be an autoimmune disease that is being treated with steroid tablets, is not terminal, and is treatable!. There is not a specific blood test for cancer although there is tumour markers and other things they can test for which can lead to a diagnosis!. Leukemia will however show up in a blood test (not all the time but most of the time) as i presume the white blood cell count would be sky high!. I'm sure the doctors have done a Full Blood Count as it's pretty routine!.
Don't stress about the hair falling out thing - it's not cancer that causes it - it's the drugs you go one once you start cancer treatment!. Good luck and keep us posted :) Www@Answer-Health@Com
My mate who is 27 had exactly the same thing, it turned out to be an autoimmune disease that is being treated with steroid tablets, is not terminal, and is treatable!. There is not a specific blood test for cancer although there is tumour markers and other things they can test for which can lead to a diagnosis!. Leukemia will however show up in a blood test (not all the time but most of the time) as i presume the white blood cell count would be sky high!. I'm sure the doctors have done a Full Blood Count as it's pretty routine!.
Don't stress about the hair falling out thing - it's not cancer that causes it - it's the drugs you go one once you start cancer treatment!. Good luck and keep us posted :) Www@Answer-Health@Com
first of all when having leukemia your hair would not start coming out till treatment!. and if she went to the doctor they probably took a blood test and if then she had an elavated white blood cell count then they would check for leukemia!. It could be some other kind of cancer if you really think its cancer, but i only know about leukemia because my best friend died on may first 2004 when we were ten of leukemia!.Www@Answer-Health@Com
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