2006-09-28 17:57:37 · 7 answers · asked by lavrisa_bmpw 2 in Health ➔ Diseases & Conditions ➔ Cancer
http://www.nci.nih.gov/cancertopics/wyntk/leukemia/page2
2006-09-28 18:00:59 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Leukemia is a cancer of either the blood or bone marrow. There are four types, and they are usually detected through blood tests. Leukemia causes the body to produce a large number of white blood cells. Most of the white bloods cells produced are deformed, though, so they won't fight infection. What they end up doing is crowding the body with useless blood cells, which makes no room for good blood cells to produce. So, eventually, when a Leukemia patient gets an infection, they are unable to fight it off.
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2006-09-29 01:01:20 · answer #2 · answered by Johhny Drama 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I am not an expert, my sister died of leukemia and it is about cancer within the bone marrow. She had an abnormal white blood cell count and that is how she found out.
2006-09-29 01:01:19 · answer #3 · answered by Goldenrain 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Leukemia is one kind of cancer where the white blood cells dominate the red blood cells instead of the red blood to dominate.
2006-09-29 01:03:21 · answer #4 · answered by katie_kate 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
simple answer cancer of the blood.
2006-09-29 01:01:01 · answer #5 · answered by csmith6901 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Please see the webpages for more details on Leukemia, Acute lymphocytic leukemia (ALL), Acute myelogenous leukemia-adult (AML), Chronic myelogenous leukemia (CML), Chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) and Hairy cell leukemia .
2006-09-29 12:50:04 · answer #6 · answered by gangadharan nair 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
This site has the best info:
http://www.leukemia-lymphoma.org/hm_lls
Best wishes to you!
2006-09-29 08:28:12 · answer #7 · answered by Char 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋