Leukemia in general is a blood disease. There are several parts that make up your blood. Your blood is made in your bone marrow. When your bone marrow stops making your red blood cells, white blood cells AND your Platelets then you might be diagnosed with Aplastic Anemia. (A related disease is MDS, Myelodsyplastic Syndromes).
Symptoms of Aplastic Anemia include, fatigue or tiredness, bruising or bleeding and repeated infections. Each of these symptoms is related to the lack of certain blood cells (white red or platelets).
Aplastic Anemia is related to chemical exposure and we believe that it is particularly related to benzene exposure.
Aplastic Anemia Resources:
http://www.aplastic.org/diseases.shtml
This entry was posted by David Austin on Friday, April 8th, 2005 at
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