2. Leukemia is the cancer of
the white blood cells.
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3. White blood cells help your body fight
infection. Your blood cells form in
your bone marrow.
In leukemia however, the bone
marrow produces abnormal white
blood cells.
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8. Common symptoms: Other symptoms:
.Fever or chills .petechia (tiny red spots
.weakness and fatigue under the skin)
.frequent infections .swollen or bleeding
.weight-loss gums
.swollen or tender lymph .sweating (especially at
nodes night)
.easy bleeding or bruising .bone or joint pain
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9. Chemotherapy
Other drug therapy and radiation
Bone marrow and blood stem cell
transplantation
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10. .Chemotherapy
.radiation therapy
.stem cell transplants
.infusion of donated white blood cells following
stem cell transplants
.immune therapy
.surgery to remove the spleen.
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11. Clonal expansion and accumulation of greater
than 20% leukemic myeloid blasts in the blood
or bone marrow .
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12. Malignancy of children and adults
characterized by the monoclonal
proliferation and accumulation of immature
lymphoid cells in the bone marrow, blood,
lymph nodes, and other organs including
spleen, liver, and CNS.
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13. A clonal myeloproliferative disorder resulting in the
overproduction and over-proliferation of Philadelphia
chromosome-positive myeloid cells.
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