Leukemia and HIV/AIDS are two very serious diseases that if they reach their full potential can be life threatening. Both of these diseases have one thing in common, being that both of these diseases destroy your white blood cells which are vital to living a healthy life. Leukemia and HIV/AIDs are both life threatening diseases that destroy your white blood cells. (Mayo Clinic Overview of HIV and AIDs, 2015) Before your get AIDs you get HIV, human immunodeficiency virus, which in your blood. (San Francisco AIDs foundation, 2015) The HIV virus destroys your immune system by ‘riding’ on a Th cell and then eventually hijacks the Th cell. When the virus completely goes into your Th cell and infects the Th cell and exponentially duplicates and …show more content…
The spleen is the largest organ in the lymphatic system. It is an important organ because it keeps your bodily fluid balances. Although the spleen is very important you can live without it, just like the appendix. The spleen is located under your ribcage and above your stomach. Continuing on, you bleed easily and/or get bruised, you constantly have nosebleeds, small red dots all over your skin, bone pain or tenderness and finally, you sweat more than usual, especially during the night. (What you need to know about Leukemia, 1997). At this moment, scientist’s don’t know the exact cause of Leukemia. There are a few thing’s that if you have you have a higher chance of getting Leukemia. Certain things in your body can provoke your body to produce abnormal white blood cells. Some of these things consist of previous cancer treatments, genetic disorder and as I mentioned earlier down syndrome. HIV or AIDs, exposure to chemicals like benzene, which is the smell of gasoline. Also, if you smoke you have a high chance of getting Leukemia. Lastly, if you family has a history of Leukemia, the chance of you getting Leukemia is much higher. (Nordqvist, 2015) Now if you have Leukemia, you will be classified into two sections. The first group is Acute Leukemia, which is when the abnormal white blood cells are immature. This means that they can’t function properly and they multiply very rapidly so the disease spreads fast. If you have Acute Leukemia then you need timely treatments. If you don’t catch the symptoms of Acute Leukemia it can be fatal within a few months. The other classification of Leukemia is Chronic. Chronic Leukemia means that sometimes you have too many cells and sometimes you have too little of cells. These cells rapidly replicate and function properly for a while and then becoming abnormal. Both Acute