Medical history (history of illness) represents an important component in the diagnosis of acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL).
Family history
- What is the general health status of your family members?
- Do you have a history of cancer in your family?
Social anamnesis
Current medical history/systemic history (somatic and psychological complaints).
- Have you noticed any changes such as fatigue, pallor?
- Have you noticed an increased tendency to bleed?
- Do you have a fever or other signs of infection?
- Do you suffer from shortness of breath?*
- Have you noticed any lymph node enlargements? If so, are they painful?
- Do you suffer from bone or joint pain?
- For men, is there swelling of the testicles?
- Since when do these changes exist?
Vegetative anamnesis including nutritional anamnesis.
- Are you overweight? Give us your body weight (in kg) and height (in cm).
- Has your appetite changed?
- Have you noticed any unwanted change in weight?
- Have you noticed any changes in digestion and/or water excretion?
- Do you suffer from sleep disturbances?
- Do you smoke? If yes, how many cigarettes, cigars or pipes per day?
- Do you use drugs? If yes, what drugs and how often per day or per week?
Self history incl. medication history.
- Previous diseases (previous tumor diseases).
- Surgeries (previous tumor surgeries).
- Radiotherapy
- Allergies
- Environmental history (radiation exposure in early childhood; industrial waste, unspecified; agricultural chemical products, unspecified; benzene).
- Drug history (chemotherapy?).
* If this question has been answered with “Yes”, an immediate visit to the doctor is required! (Information without guarantee)
