hematopoietic malignancies

hematopoietic malignancies,

diseases such as leukemia that arise as a result of unregulated clonal proliferation of stem cells.

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Patient discussion about hematopoietic malignancies.

Q. Can blood cancer be transmitted? If I, let’s just say, cut my self. Then someone’s blood came in contact of my wound. Can I get blood cancer too? Is it like AIDS?

A. First off all you mean Leukemia (the proper name for “blood cancer”), and as far as I know- no, you can’t. my son had Leukemia and I read a lot of information about it and never saw any warning about infectiousness of Leukemia.

Q. Is leukemia contagious? A friend of mine got leukemia (blood cancer), can I get it from him if he bleeds and I touch the blood? Like HIV I mean.

A. You can relax ? , you can not get Leukemia from another person. In fact even if you get blood transfusion from your friend and nothing will happen to you (unless he has a different blood type..). you can get leukemia if you are exposed to carcinogenic materials, radiation and Genetic abnormalities.

Q. my friend has blood cancer ... and he acts as normal as i am , but i can't stop thinking if it is good for him because i think he's putting a fake show for us , he's friends , because he wants us to act normal around him and he doesn't want to have special treatment from us .. and i am not sure it is for his benefit .. health wise ... what do you think ?

A. there are many psychological ways to accept a disease. denial, passive aggressive mechanism, acting out, control, humor ect. everyone of them has advantages and disadvantages. they are not bad or wrong, they just are. and the people around him have to understand it. if he's starting to act weird or harmful- then i suggest professional help. but as long that it doesn't get that far- leave it be.