Dr. Andre Kwasi Kumah of the Eden Family Clinic, has expressed worry over the difficulty doctors go through to get matching bone morrow during transplant for leukemia patients in the country. He attributed the difficulty to the differences in the genes found in human beings and lack of facilities to preserve bone marrow in the country. Speaking on Joy FM’s Super Morning Show on Wednesday about leukemia cancer, Dr. Kumah said: “Even though there maybe some similarities in the human genes, a patient could die if the detail of the bone marrow he receives for his transplant doesn’t match with his.” Leukemia is the cancer of the blood caused by abnormal growth of cells in the blood. Dr Andre Kwasi Kumah said though there are no causes of leukemia, the disease has some risk factors including radiation, exposure to chemicals and aging, adding, “the symptoms of leukemia can be like the symptoms of other illness like malaria” and advised that people should visit the health center when they see any sign of ailment in the body. “When the white blood cells produced from the bone marrow and the genes go wrong, they turn out to produce abnormal amounts of cells and split through the blood causing leukemia cancer,” he explained. Bone marrow transplant and chemotherapy, he said, are some of the ways of treating a patient suffering from the leukemia. Dr Kwasi Kumah said there are four major groups of leukemia but basically, two distributive factors are used in grouping them into four, adding that the abnormal growth of cells by the white blood cells is called euphuistic leukemia and the ones caused by the red blood cells are called oleaginous leukemia. Euphuistic leukemia, he said is when the abnormal growth of cell increases rapidly in the blood. The oleaginous leukemia mostly occur in children, and take some years to increase the production of abnormal cells in the blood.