Cancer-Induced Anemia
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Some cancer types involve inflammation, and as such might cause anemia of chronic inflammation. Also, anemia can result from types of cancer in organs and tissues that are involved in the production of red blood cells, like Leukemia and lymphoma, that damage bone marrow, or cancers that involved excessive bleeding, like Gastrointestinal, cervical and male genital cancers.
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Cancer treatment like chemotherapy and radiation damage bone marrow and might also damage the kidneys, and as such also cause anemia. Most cancer patients receiving said treatments suffer from anemia, with varying severity.
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Though usually temporary, for the duration of the cancer treatments, the symptoms of anemia, that also include hair loss, sores in the mouth, nausea, decrease in fertility in men, weaken the patient, making coping with the physical and mental effects of the disease and treatment even more difficult, and might reduce the patient’s survival chances.
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In some cases when the anemia becomes severe, it might delay treatment and the patient may even require transfusions before treatment can be resumed.