Syphilis does not cause leukemia, because the pathogenesis, symptoms and complications of these two diseases are not associated, so it is not due to syphilis lead to leukemia.
1. Pathogenesis: Syphilis is a sexually transmitted disease caused by the syphilis spirochete, mainly through sexual contact, mother and child, blood and other means of transmission, in the treatment of the first choice of penicillin drugs for treatment, some can be cured. Leukemia is a class of hematopoietic system of malignant neoplastic diseases, can be divided into acute leukemia and chronic leukemia, once diagnosed leukemia need to be treated as soon as possible.
2. Symptoms: Syphilis can be divided into three phases according to the course of the disease, each phase of the characteristics and the degree of destruction and infectiousness of different, syphilis a typical symptom is the hard chancre, inguinal lymph node enlargement, syphilis two will appear syphilitic rashes and systemic manifestations, syphilis three will be syphilitic tumors, bone syphilitic tumors and neurosyphilitic tumors.
Symptoms of leukemia are also different according to the categories of acute and chronic. Acute leukemia mostly manifests anemia, bleeding, bone and joint pain, etc., while chronic leukemia mostly manifests fatigue, low-grade fever, hyperhidrosis and night sweating (abnormal sweating after going to sleep, and sweating stops after waking up), and sometimes also manifests loss of appetite and emaciation.