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 fight infection. When viewed with a microscope, it looks abnormal B cells and 'hair'.
As 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, especially 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 the chronic diseases because the disease is never really gone though perhaps in a few years of treatment dose is reduced.
Cause
Hairy cell leukemia is caused by DNA mutations that cause spinal cells produce too many white blood cells are not able to work well. But experts do not know what causes DNA mutations experienced by the cells of the spinal cord.
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