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What would the symptoms be if you have leukemia?

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Dr. Michael Dugan answered

Specializes in Hematology

Hard to : Generalize, but most commonly patients present with severe fatigue, sob, easy bruisability, and sometimes fever.

Answered 1/30/2013

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Varies.: Some leukemias may cause no symptoms at all, and may be found incidently on a blood count. Others, when more advanced, may cause bruising (from low platelets), weakness (from anemia) or fever and chills or other signs of infection (from abnormal white blood cells). The more serious leukemias may cause bone pain, painfull enlargement of the spleen, or swollen lymph nodes.

Answered 1/30/2013

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Dr. Liawaty Ho answered

Specializes in Hematology and Oncology

Depends: It depends on the type, acute vs chronic. In acute leukemia, you can have gradual fatigue, fever, chills, bleeding, bony pain. Weight loss is also common. In chronic leukemia, many times you don't have significant symptoms and people commonly diagnosed or presented with abnormal labs.

Answered 12/12/2013

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VARIES: There is no specific symptom. Symptoms vary, for example: fevers, night sweats, weight loss, fatigue, weakness and shortness of breath to name a few. Initial best test is a: CBC - complete blood count.

Answered 10/9/2017

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Dr. James Ball answered

Specializes in Pediatric Hematology and Oncology

Symptoms. : When someone had leukemia, it causes specific symptoms. These include easy bruising or bleeding, fatigue, fevers. The leukemia affects the blood counts, typically making blood counts very low. Leukemia may also cause swelling of the lymph nodes, liver and spleen.

Answered 7/19/2018

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Quite Varied: Patients often present with weakness, fever, bleeding or infection. Anemia is common, this leads to feeling of tiredness and poor general feeling. A simple blood test(CBC) is all it will take to find out the diagnosis and answer your question.

Answered 11/9/2014

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