In addition, affected individuals may heal slowly from injuries or have frequent infections due to the loss
of normal white blood cells that fight infection.
In leukemia, signals that normally tell a blood stem cell to mature malfunction, leaving it to endlessly multiply and «self - renew» instead of
producing normal white blood cells needed to fight infection.
«Leukemia, in general, is a blood cancer, a disease where the bone marrow is filled with unhealthy cells which typically keep a body from
making normal white blood cells,» says Ryan Mattison, MD, assistant professor of medicine at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health.
If you have chronic joint pain, any «-- itis» condition, elevated LDL cholesterol, high CRP, and chronically high or high -
normal white blood cell counts, you have systemic inflammation.