Leukemia : Causes In Teens
Researchers are still grappling in the dark to learn about the exact causes of leukemia. However, they know for sure that environmental and genetic factors come into play.
Typically, your teen will develop leukemia if the DNA in his blood cells mutates. However, there could be some other changes in these cells that result in leukemia, but scientists are unaware of them. Leukemia, a type of cancer, develops when abnormalities in the blood cells cause them to grow and divide more quickly than normal blood cells, and these rapidly growing cells continue living even after the other healthy and normal blood cells die.
This growth causes your teen’s bone marrow to end up with more abnormal cells than healthy red blood cells, white blood cells, and platelets. When this happens, your teenager develops the symptoms of leukemia.