Recently, a patient with fever and general weakness came to our outpatient clinic, and when the routine blood test was done in the clinic, the doctor in the laboratory was surprised. It turned out that this patient’s routine blood test showed that the patient’s white blood cell count reached more than 3 million, while the normal white blood cell count is 4,000 to 10,000, and this patient’s white blood cells were extremely elevated. This immediately drew the attention of the laboratory staff and the patient was quickly sent to the hematology department. After arriving at the hematology department, the doctor quickly diagnosed the patient as having chronic granulocytic leukemia, which is prone to spleen rupture and bleeding if there is trauma due to the extremely elevated white blood cell count and obvious splenomegaly.
After the patient was admitted to the hospital, the patient’s white blood cell count dropped rapidly after aggressive treatment and several rechecking of routine blood tests. A week later, the routine blood test showed that the white blood cell count had returned to the normal range and the patient was not febrile, so the patient was happily discharged from the hospital at a cost of less than 1,000 yuan.
It turned out that this patient had been diagnosed with chronic granulocytic leukemia at the First Affiliated Hospital of Soochow University as early as six months ago due to fever, which improved after treatment. Later, the patient did not continue the regular treatment, but listened to the doctors and took Chinese medicine on his own, and did not have regular blood tests. This time, if not for the fever with weakness to check the blood routine, it is likely to be life-threatening due to complications.
Leukemia is a malignant neoplastic disease of the blood system, also known as blood cancer, which was once an incurable disease before the hair. In recent years, with the development of medicine, it was found that leukemia is divided into many different types, many of which have been well treated, such as acute lymphoblastic leukemia in children, acute promyelocytic leukemia, the current formal treatment can reach a cure rate of about 80%; the rest of the types of leukemia after active treatment, can also significantly extend the life of the patient. In addition, since all of them have medical insurance, regular treatment is not too much of a financial burden. Therefore, if you are unfortunate enough to have leukemia, you should not rush to the doctor or believe in the so-called folk remedies, but should go to the hematology department of a regular hospital for regular treatment.