... The body starts to make too many white blood cells and too few of red blood cells. The white blood cells do not mature properly. As a result, the immune system does not function properly and infections occur easily. Abnormal white cells become crowded in the bone marrow, leaving no room for red blood cells and platelets to grow. The loss of red blood cells and platelets has serious affects on the body like anemia wherein a person feels week and tired. These white blood cells spread to the brain, heart, lungs, and other organs. The cancer cells interfere with the functions with these organs. As the cancer cells travel from one organ to the other the cancer has spread and we call that metastasized. The more places cancer cells go, the more damage they can do, and the more difficult the cancer is to treat. The following are ...

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