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What are the signs and symptoms of acute lymphocytic leukemia?

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• July 23, 2024

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Healthtree contact Greg Knight, MD

Greg Knight, MD

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What are the signs and symptoms of acute lymphocytic leukemia?

The when we talk about signs of hll, what I will tell you

is that it is very nonspecific.

It is the it is shortness of breath, it is infections.

It is bleeding, bruising.

The thing I want to emphasize,

though, is unlike a lot of other cancers where we worry about progression,

where we worry about, no, it's spread from here to there.

That's this is a completely different idea.

Your white blood cells were everywhere to begin with.

They were fighting infection in every part of your body to begin with.

They didn't spread anywhere.

This is just an air and how we make them.

So the good thing is we don't think of the things

like stages, like, say, lung cancer or breast cancer,

which most people are more familiar with because there are more prevalent cancers.

We it doesn't matter to me when you come in those types of things.

Instead, it's every person I meet. I'm looking to cure

the bigger thing.

When we talk about recognizing signs is is general preventative health.

So if you're feeling more short of breath, if you're having bleeding bruising,

get checked out. It's probably not leukemia.

But if it is, we want to get you treated.

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