What Is Childhood Leukemia?
Leukemia is a cancer of the early blood-forming cells. Most often, the leukemia is a cancer of the white blood cells, but leukemia can involve other blood cell types as well. Leukemia starts in the bone marrow and then spreads to the blood. From ... [... more]
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Childhood Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia Treatment (PDQ®)
Childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) is a type of cancer in which the bone marrow makes too many lymphocytes (a type of white blood cell). Family history and exposure to radiation may affect the risk of developing childhood ALL. Childhood ... [... more]
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Immunotherapy and the Immune System
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Blood Transfusion
This booklet provides information about blood transfusion for patients with leukemia, lymphoma or myeloma (blood cancers) and their families. We welcome your comments on the booklet. Each year, more than15 million units of whole blood are ... [... more]
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SEER Stat Fact Sheets - Leukemia
It is estimated that 44,270 men and women (25,180 men and 19,090 women) will be diagnosed with and 21,710 men and women will die of leukemia in 20081X Close From 2001-2005, the median age at diagnosis for leukemia was 67 years of age3X Close The ... [... more]
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How is Childhood Leukemia Diagnosed?
Most of the signs and symptoms that children with leukemia develop result from a lack of normal blood cells caused by crowding out of normal blood cell-producing bone marrow by the leukemia cells. A child may complain of shortness of breath, ... [... more]
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What Are the Risk Factors for Childhood Leukemia?
But risk factors are rarely absolute. Having a risk factor, or even several risk factors, does not mean that you will get the disease. And many people who get the disease may not have had any known risk factors. Genetic risk factors are those ... [... more]
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Official website of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). NIH is one of the world's foremost medical research centers. An agency of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, the NIH is the Federal focal point for health research. The ... [... more]
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Find a Pediatric Hematologist/Oncologist
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