Types
What blood cancer originates in the blood and bone marrow.
Leukemia
What type of blood cancer can cause fatigue, easy bruising, bone pain, and infections due to abnormal blood cell production?
Leukemia
What type of blood cancer is the most common?
Leukemia ( makes up about 28% of all childhood Cancers.)
Approximately every ____ minutes someone in the US dies from blood cancer.
Nine
What type of treatment uses drugs to kill fast-growing cancer cells.
Chemotherapy
What type of blood cancer begins in the bloods plasma cells?
Myeloma
What type of blood cancer can cause swollen lymph nodes, fevers, night sweats, fatigue, and unexplained weight loss?
Lymphoma
Blood cancer is most common in what age group?
Older adults around 65 to 74.
Is blood cancer hereditary?
No it is not hereditary but having a family member with the disease slightly increases your risk.
What treatment uses high-energy rays to kill cancer cells and can be combined with other treatments.
Radiation therapy
What type of blood cancer developed in the Lymphatic System?
Lymphoma
What type of blood cancer causes bone pain, fractures, and kidney problems?
Myeloma
About how many blood cancer cases occur annually?
Around 1.3 million cases per year.
About every ____ minutes someone in the US is diagnosed with blood cancer.
Three
Also known as a bone marrow transplant, this treatment replaces cancerous blood-forming cells with healthy ones, often following chemotherapy or radiation to destroy the malignant cells.
Stem Cell Transplant
What is the less common blood cancer that originates in the bone marrow.
Myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS)
WHat type of blood cancer can cause bone pain, fractures, and kidney problems?
MPN
Around how many people in the world are living with or in remission from blood Cancers?
Blood Cancers are more common in what gender?
Men
Stimulates the body's own immune system to fight cancer cells.
immunotherapy
What types of blood cancer causes the bone marrow to overproduce blood cells.
myeloproliferative neoplasms (MPN), Leukemia, and MPS
What type of blood cancer can cause fatigue and shortness of breath from anemia (low red blood cells), frequent infections due to low white blood cells, and easy bruising or bleeding from low platelets?
MDS
What are the odds of getting blood cancer?
One in every 16 men and one in every 22 women.
What is the most rare type of blood cancer?
Large granular lymphocyte leukemia (LGL)
Lab-created immune proteins that attach to cancer cells, helping the immune system recognize and destroy them
Monoclonal antibodies