Leukemia Treatment and Symptoms entities General leukemia; Leukemia cancer
Leukemia or leukaemia (see spelling differences) is a cancer of the blood or bone marrow characterized by an abnormal proliferation of blood cells, usually white blood cells (leukocytes). It is part of the broad group of diseases called hematological neoplasms. Symptoms Damage to the bone marrow, by way of displacing the normal marrow cells with increasing numbers of malignant cells, results in a lack of blood platelets, which are important in the blood clotting process. This means peop ...
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Leukemia Organizations
- National Women's Health Information Center http://www.4woman.gov/
- National Cancer Institute http://www.nci.nih.gov/
- National Institutes of Health http://www.nih.gov/
- Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research http://www.mayoclinic.com
- Cancer Information Service, NCI, NIH, HHS http://cis.nci.nih.gov/
- National Center for Biotechnology Information, NLM, NIH, HHS http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/
- The Leukemia and Lymphoma Society http://www.leukemia-lymphoma.org/hm_lls
- Cure for Lymphoma Foundation
- National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute http://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/index.htm
- Lab Tests Online http://www.labtestsonline.org/
- Cleveland Clinic http://www.clevelandclinic.org
- University of Maryland Medical Center http://www.umm.edu/
Resources
- Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia in Children (National Cancer Institute)
- Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia in Children (National Cancer Institute)