“Blood cancer is a group of more than 100 cancers that most often begin in the bone marrow and can affect blood cells, lymph nodes, and other parts of the lymphatic system. Blood cancers occur when abnormal blood cells crowd out normal cells, interfering with the ability of normal blood cells to fight infection and reproduce.

Many people discount their symptoms. Exhaustion or random aches and pains are often blamed on stress or age. Night sweats and recurring fevers sometimes get written off as a virus. Lots of itching… must be an allergy. Or a broken bone is usually just seen as just an accident.

They seem like innocent symptoms that can be associated with other common ailments, but any of them could point to blood cancer.

Many people aren’t familiar with blood cancer. In fact, some patients who have been diagnosed with leukemia or lymphoma, myeloma, myelodysplastic syndromes, or myeloproliferative neoplasms, may not realize they have a form of blood cancer.”

Leukemia and Lymphoma Society (https://www.lls.org/blog/defining-and-redefining-blood-cancer-diagnosis)