Leukemia-patient version
Leukemia is a cancer of the blood cells. The more blood cells in the bone marrow. Leukemia, immature blood cells become cancer. These cells do not work the way they should, and they crowd out healthy blood cells in the bone marrow.
Different types of leukemia is a cancer depending on the type of blood cells. For example, white blood cells which fight lymphoblastic leukemia (infection) tumor lymphoblasts. The most common type of blood cell to become a cancer of the white blood cells. But Retailing red blood cells (cells that carry oxygen from the lungs to the rest of the body) and platelets (blood cells that clot) can become cancer.
Leukemia occurs most often in adults over the age of 55 years, but it is also the most common cancer in children under 15 years.
You may have leukemia or acute or chronic. Acute leukemia is a rapidly growing cancer that usually gets worse quickly. It is a slow growing cancer that chronic leukemia gets worse gradually with time. Treatment and prognosis of blood cells affected by leukemia and the leukemia is acute or chronic depending matter.
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