THALASSAEMIA is a genetic disease that interfere with normal red blood cells and blood cells that causes fragile or damaged. This lump sum can produce continuous iron and gathered in several vital organs like heart brain, liver and kidneys.
This resulted in damage to the organ, and at the same time, the patient was pale due to lack of normal red blood cells. This is due to low hemoglobin level and require continuous blood transfusions.
If before this, most thalassemia patients in this country, particularly children, had to deal with difficult moments, including the pain each time taking injections for the treatment of the disease, but after this, they will breathe a sigh of relief when the government will introduce alternative methods of treatment easy. To be implemented by July, treatment with a drug Deeferasirox (Exjade) taken orally is expected to benefit the most optimum thalassemia patients as compared to the old method of using injections of iron chelation agent such

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TASTE fever, fatigue, lethargy, poor appetite and rapid weight loss may be common symptoms. However, a precautionary because it may be an early symptom of more serious diseases like blood cancer called lymphoma.
Lymphoma is a type of blood cancer that starts from cells of the immune system called lymphocytes. Like other cancers, lymphoma occurs when lymphocytes are in a state of uncontrolled cell growth and multiply.

Lymphocytes are white blood cells that flow throughout the body through a fluid called lymph. It is distributed by a network of channels that form the lymphatic system is part of the immune system. Lymphatic system (function against infection or harmful elements) also includes the lymph nodes that exist throughout the body to filter the lymph that flows through it. lymph nodes swell and become soft when a large number of microbial organisms trapped inside. This indicated the presence of infection. Abnormal lymphocytes accumulated in one or more lymph nodes or lymphatic tissue such as spleen or tonsils and eventually form a cluster of cells called a tumor. tumor growth and spread in the vicinity of tissues and organs, thus disrupt the supply of oxygen and

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