Leukemia is cancer of the blood cells. Blood cells are made by your bone marrow, which is the soft tissue in the middle of most bones. Leukemia starts with chromosome changes in cells. These changes are called mutations, and mutations change the way cells work and grow. With leukemia, the bone marrow starts making too many white blood cells, and sometimes these cells don't work right. These cells keep growing when they are supposed to stop. They also grow faster than your other cells.

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The cause of leukemia is not known. But there are some things that can raise your risk of getting some kinds of leukemia. These risk factors include certain chemotherapy treatments, being exposed to large amounts of radiation or some chemicals in the workplace, and smoking and tobacco use. Most types of leukemia do not seem to run in families, but in some cases, CLL does.1 There are also certain genetic conditions, like Down syndrome, that can make AML more likely.

If your doctor thinks you might have leukemia, he or she will ask questions about your past and present symptoms, do a physical exam, and order blood tests. If your blood tests are not normal, you may need a test of cells from inside your bone, called a bone marrow biopsy. Bone marrow cells give key information for diagnosing most kinds of leukemia.

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There are four main types of leukemia. Acute leukemia gets worse very quickly. People with acute leukemia often feel sick right away. Chronic leukemia gets worse slowly, and you may not have any symptoms until later on in the illness. Those two kinds of leukemia are divided according to which kind of white blood cells are involved, lymphocytes or myelocytes. Chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL). CLL is the most common leukemia in adults, especially older adults. Children almost never get it.

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Leukemia can affect anyone at any age, but is more likely to strike the very young and people past 40.

Leukemia is very difficult to diagnose, mostly because its symptoms are easily confused with other, less dangerous conditions. Common signs of leukemia include: Unfortunately, leukemias can go undiagnosed since a fever, nausea, sleeplessness, and loss of appetite are easily attributable to a cold or the flu. Also, different types of leukemia cause different symptoms.

Leukemia is usually treated with drugs, radiation, and immunotherapy, which aims to increase the natural disease fighting powers of the body.

Feline leukemia is a high-mortality disease caused by the feline leukemia virus (FeLV). FeLV produces an initial immunosuppressive infection followed by various other diseases (e.g., respiratory disease, diarrhea, anemia) affecting the immunosuppressed cat. Cats that survive these initial diseases may develop some form of cancer, hence the name feline leukemia. The disease is transmitted by direct contact with infected cats or with contaminated food dishes or litter boxes.

We currently recommend testing all kittens and cats for FeLV/FIV. This is usually done at their first visit, and the test is performed in our office with a small sample of your cats blood. We can have the results in approximatey 10 minutes.

Feline Leukemia Virus is a virus that is specific to cats only. It is considered to be the most common cause of serious illness and death in domestic cats. It causes a breakdown in your cat's immune system causing your cat to become susceptible to many diseases which it might otherwise be able to fight off. It CANNOT be transmitted to humans (including children) nor can it be transmitted to other species such as dogs.