Leukemia in adults may be caused by physical factors, chemical factors, genetic factors, other blood diseases and viral infections.
1. Physical factors: Long-term exposure to ionizing rays such as X-rays and Y-rays may inhibit bone marrow hematopoiesis, lower immunity, and lead to DNA mutation, breakage, and recombination and cause leukemia.
2. Chemical factors: it may be caused by long-term exposure to benzene and solvents containing benzene. It is not excluded that the body suffers from tumor disease, which requires long-term use of anti-tumor drugs (carboplatin, etc.).
3. Genetic factors: when close relatives have a history of genetic diseases, such as Down syndrome, leukemia, aplastic anemia and other diseases, the incidence of leukemia will be higher.
4. Other blood diseases: when the body suffers from certain blood diseases, it can also develop into leukemia, such as myelodysplastic syndromes and lymphomas.
5. Viral infection: when the body is infected by pathogenic bacteria, adult T-cell leukemia can be caused by viral infection, which can act as an endogenous virus lurking in the host’s cells, and can be activated to induce leukemia under the action of certain factors, or can act as an exogenous virus spreading the infection and causing leukemia.
Patients with leukemia should go to the hospital for examination in time and be treated under the guidance of the doctor.