What are the symptoms of childhood leukemia?
Signs and Symptoms of Childhood Leukemia Most of the signs and symptoms that children with leukemia develop result from a lack of normal blood cells, which happens when the leukemia cells crowd out the normal blood cell-producing bone marrow. It is important to keep in mind that many of these symptoms have others causes as well, and are not necessarily due to leukemia. Fatigue, paleness of the skin: A child may complain of excessive tiredness, or the skin may appear pale because of anemia (a shortage of red blood cells). Infection: A child with leukemia may develop an infection with fever that doesn’t improve, even with antibiotics, and become very sick. This is because of a deficiency of normal white blood cells, particularly mature granulocytes. Although leukemia is a cancer of white blood cells and children with leukemia may have very high white blood cell counts, the leukemia cells do not protect against infection the way normal white blood cells do. Easy bleeding or bruising: A ch
