A mild form of anemia usually appears within a month or so after the onset of a chronic inflammatory disease such as rheumatoid arthritis or tuberculosis. This anemia can’t be treated directly; it disappears or diminishes when the underlying disease is treated.
If anemia is caused by kidney disease or cancer, a new form of treatment called recombinant human erythropoietin therapy may be used. When one or more of the genes that control red cell production are defective, you have a hereditary anemia. The severity of the anemia depends on how many genes are affected and which functions they control. In most cases, hereditary anemia are “managed” rather than cured; however the possibilities for cure are increasing through advances in genetic engineering.
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