Leukemia

Leukemia is a cancer of the blood or bone marrow.

Leukemia. The type of leukemia depends on the type of blood cell that becomes cancer and whether it grows quickly or slowly. If this happens or if you have signs or symptoms that suggest leukemia you may undergo the following diagnostic exams. The term chronic in chronic lymphocytic leukemia comes from the fact that it typically progresses more slowly than other types of leukemia. There are several broad categories of blood cells including red blood cells rbcs white blood cells wbcs and platelets.

Leukemia is a broad term for cancers of the blood cells. Leukemia is a malignancy cancer of blood cells. Symptoms may include bleeding and bruising feeling tired fever and an increased risk of infections. Chronic lymphocytic leukemia cll is a type of cancer of the blood and bone marrow the spongy tissue inside bones where blood cells are made.

Many types of leukemia exist. Generally leukemia refers to. It usually affects the leukocytes or white. Leukemia also spelled leukaemia is a group of blood cancers that usually begin in the bone marrow and result in high numbers of abnormal blood cells.

Those white blood cells crowd out the red blood cells and platelets that your body. Leukemia is cancer of the body s blood forming tissues including the bone marrow and the lymphatic system. Other forms of leukemia occur mostly in adults. Bone marrow produces blood cells.

Bone marrow exam doctors may find chronic leukemia in a routine blood test before symptoms begin. However the abnormal cells in leukemia do not function in the same way as normal white blood cells. Leukemia leukemia is a cancer of the early blood forming cells. Some forms of leukemia are more common in children.

Leukemia is a blood cancer caused by a rise in the number of white blood cells in your body. Most often leukemia is a cancer of the white blood cells but some leukemias start in other blood cell types. Leukemia is a cancer of the blood cells. In leukemia abnormal blood cells are produced in the bone marrow.

These blood cells are not fully developed and are called blasts or leukemia cells.