 Hi, I am Dr. Divya Vinsan. I am a consultant in clinical hematology and bone marrow transplantation at Manipal Hospital, New York. Today I would like to talk about blood cancers. Blood cancers are hematological disorders which lead to abnormal production of white blood cells, leading to disrupting the functioning of white blood cells, preventing infections and preventing bleeding leading to severe anemia. There are basically three types of blood cancers, leukemia, lymphoma and myeloma. Leukemia basically leads to fast production of white blood cells which can be seen in blood and bone marrow and hampering the normal functioning of normal white blood cells causing severe anemia symptoms of bleeding and leading to severe infections. Whereas lymphoma are the cancers of lymphatic system where the normal lymphocytes are replaced by abnormal lymphocytes, thus affecting the immune system of a person. And finally the myelomas are those specialized blood cancers which affect cells known as plasma cells. Plasma cells are basically cells that produce antibodies in our body and these antibodies are specialized proteins which fight against a lot of infections in the body. And because normal plasma cells are replaced by these abnormal plasma cells, antibody production is impaired leading to making a person prone to infection. So as we can understand all the blood cancers basically affect the normal functioning of the bone marrow making a person prone to infection, bleeding and anemia. So this leads us to what are the symptoms of blood cancer. So the symptoms of blood cancer include anemia, infection, fever, tiredness, bone pains, you know you can feel easy fatigue ability or you can have nodular swelling around your neck, axilla or groin. Some patients have lower back aches, some patients they can have night sweats. So all these symptoms they indicate towards blood cancer. In case anybody experiences these symptoms we have to think of blood cancer and blood cancer is a medical emergency. And you should contact your hematologist immediately. Now coming to the management part of blood cancer. Chemotherapy remains the mainstay of management of blood cancers. Now the type of chemotherapy and the duration depends on the type of blood cancer that we diagnose. And also on the patient related factors like patients age, any comorbidities if they have at the fragility status of the patient. Also at the time of diagnosis every blood cancer is stratified when the risk category could intermediate at poor and the management depends on the risk stratification of the cancer. Bone marrow transplant is only curative method for almost all the blood cancers, though newer techniques are coming in in the world like hearty cells and all. But they are still in the juvenile stage and we are working on them. But bone marrow transplant is one of the well recognized techniques of treating all the blood cancers. Thank you.