Prevent and treat cancer of the spinal cord.
This is one of the world's rarest diseases. Imagine only 2-3 people per 100,000 people who may be exposed to this aggressive cancer. The cause and cure not yet found. The disease is common in men and women with a ratio of 3:2, blacks more often affected than whites, and are commonly found in over 40 years of age. Cases in patients aged less than 40 years under three percent.
Recent studies have not determined the cause of this spinal marrow cancer. But there are some risk factors of developing myeloma, such as exposure to chemicals or germs, changes in genes, and obesity.
Cases of spinal cancer is most common metastasis, which is cancer originating from other parts of the body and spreads to the spine. When cancer spreads or comes in this area, usually affecting one or more sections of the spine. If a person develops cancer of the spine, either primary or secondary, it will show different symptoms of the disease. cancer can not only damage the bones of the back but also damage the spinal cord sufferers.
The most common sign of cancer of the bone in the spinal cord is a pain in the neck or back. The pain will be continuous and accompanied by other symptoms. This pain can be just in the back, they can also spread to other limbs.
Its development depends only on the location of abnormal growth. If small amounts of cancer causing inflammation and irritation, pain usually remains behind.
If the cancer is pressing against a nerve, pain diffuse out to the "branches" are related. No matter the source of pain, cancer of the spine cause chronic discomfort.
Spinal cord cancer can also cause incontinence. These symptoms are very similar to a weakness, because the pressure on certain nerves in the spine that is responsible for controlling the performance of bladder and bowel. If the impulse is interrupted, can cause one to lose control of their bladder, bowel, or both.
The development begins with the growth of cancer cells plasma cells, which is one part of white blood cells in the bone marrow that is not normal. Plasma cells in normal conditions it is necessary, because it produces proteins called antibodies, as part of the immune system.
In patients with myeloma, plasma cells exceeded normal levels. Of the five percent plasma cells that should exist in the spinal cord, in patients with this cancer can be two-fold measure. These abnormal plasma cells are not just sitting in the spinal cord, but also on other body parts, and often found in the pelvis, ribs, and skull-because it's called multiple myeloma. Antibodies produced any increase.
Abnormal antibodies that had accumulated in the blood or urine, sometimes found also in areas other than bone, such as the lungs and reproductive organs. Fraction of abnormal antibodies (Bence-Jones proteins) often accumulate in the kidney, damage and trigger kidney failure.
In addition, patients experiencing anemia, because the cells producing normal red blood cells in bone marrow replaced by abnormal cells. The blood thickens (hyperviscosity syndrome) can affect blood flow to the brain, skin, fingers and toes, and nose.
Along with the development of cancer of the spine, a person may suffer from paralysis. Depending on the severity of cancer, paralysis can be isolated to one limb. The size and location of growth to determine the amount of paralysis, because the cancer can get to the point where the nerves seem to break or lesion has been formed on the nerve itself.
Myeloma treatment such as chemotherapy are done these days is limited to prevent or reduce symptoms and complications, slow disease progression, and destroy the abnormal plasma cells. In addition to chemotherapy, stem cell therapy (stem cell) is known as a way to reduce spinal cord cancer. Cancer that has lost it would appear again.
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