Causes
Classifications
Symptoms and Treatments
Statistics
Other
100
Smoking, previous cancer treatments, genetic disorders, exposure to a certain, smoking, or family history of leukemia
What are the risk factors of leukemia?
100
acute, chronic, lymphocytic, myelogenous
What are the four classifications?
100
Age, type of leukemia, overall health, and if it has spread to other parts of your body
What are the factors that determine treatment?
100
24,400
What are people expected to die from leukemia in 2016?
100
Where leukemia starts
What is bone marrow?
200
People with known risk factors
Who is less likely to have leukemia
200
Affects the lymphoid cells
What is lymphocytic leukemia?
200
persistent fatigue, fever or chills, weakness, frequent or severe infections, unintentional weight loss, swollen lymph nodes, bleeding or bruising, recurrent nose bleeds, excessive sweating, bone pain or tenderness, and tiny red spots on skin
What are symptoms of leukemia?
200
345,422
What are people living with, or in remission from, leukemia in the US?
200
someone in the United States is diagnosed with a type of blood cancer
What is every 4 minutes?
300
Cancer of the body's blood- forming tissues
What is leukemia?
300
Affects the myeloid cells
What is myelonous leukemia?
300
If symptoms are persistent
When should you see a doctor?
300
60,140 people are expected to be diagnosed with leukemia
What is the year 2016?
300
are more likely to have leukemia
What are males
400
Scientist don't know the exact cause of leukemia...so there isn't one that is known
What is the exact cause of leukemia?
400
some cells can't carry out their normal functions, and they multiply rapidly, so the disease worsens quickly.
What is acute leukemia?
400
Varies by the type of leukemia
What are symptoms of leukemia?
400
5,413
What are children, adolescents and young adults less than 20 years old are expected to be diagnosed with leukemia?
400
someone in the US dies from a blood cancer.
What is every 10 minutes?
500
It produces abnormal white blood cells, which don't function properly
What is happening with bone marrow when a person has leukemia?
500
produce too many cells and some cause too few cells to be produced.
What is chronic leukemia?
500
Common treatments for leukemia
What are radiation therapy, chemotherapy, biological therapy, targeted therapy, and stem cell transplants
500
1 in 3
What are cancers that are leukemia in children and teens?
500
10th
What is leukemia's ranking in all types of people
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