What is Leukemia?
This part of the body produces blood cells and is affected by leukemia.
What is bone marrow?
This type of leukemia is most common in children.
What is ALL (Acute Lymphocytic Leukemia)?
This treatment uses drugs to kill cancer cells.
What is chemotherapy?
What is the 1800's?
Leukemia is type of this disease
What is cancer?
Leukemia that grow quickly are called this
What is acute leukemia?
This therapy uses high-energy rays to destroy cancer cells
What is radiation therapy?
Doctors used this to treat leaukemia in the early 1900's
What is Red blood cells, white blood cells, and platelets?
CLL stands for this
What is Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia?
This treatment helps the immune system attack leukemia cells
What is immunotherapy?
Early chemotherapy drugs were developed during this decade
What are the 1940's
Leukemia is caused by
This type of leukemia affects myeloid cells
What is AML or CML?
This treatment replaces damaged bone marrow with healthy cells
What is a bone marrow transplant?
This treatment began developing in the mid 1900's and is still used today.
What is bone marrow or stem cell transplant?
Leukemia can make this harder for the body to do because abnormal cells don't function properly
These are the four main types of leukemia
What are AML, ALL, CLL, and CML?
These research studies test new drugs and treatments
What are clinical trials?
What are the late 1990's?