Acute lymphoblastic leukemia

Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia is cancer of the blood cells and the lymphatic system that are formed in the bone marrow. CLL usually affects older adults, especially those over age 60. People under age 45 rarely develop CLL. (https://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/) In CLL, cancerous blood cells form and crowd out the healthy blood cells in the bone marrow. (http://www.cancer.gov/types/leukemia) The type of leukemia depends on the type of blood cell that has become cancerous. The CLL cells leave…

Acute Promyelocytic Leukemia Acute promyelocytic leukemia, a form of acute myeloid leukemia, is a bone marrow cancer with painful symptoms, that occurs in approximately 1 in 250,000 people of the US. . Normal bone marrow has a steady supply of hematopoietic stem cells that produce helpful cells for the body; red blood cells, white blood cells, and platelets (“Acute Promyelocytic Leukemia Description”). These cells all have specific jobs that they perform and are all vital to the body’s…

worried about how it will it affect theirs. Sadly, not many know the effects the different types can have, especially with acute myeloid leukemia. But through the process of cancer awareness projects, such as charity events or Pre-AP Biology essays, we can become better at detecting, ending, and preventing the the many subsets of the disorder known as cancer. Acute myeloid leukemia (AML) is a cancer of the bone marrow and blood cells. This can cause rapid production of irregular myeloblasts…

relatively a consistently high number of white blood cells are a symptom of leukemia. Leukemia is a cancer of the blood where the patient has about 50,000 white blood cells in a single drop of blood. Normally, a drop of a blood can contain anywhere from 7,000 to 25,000 white blood cells at a time. The blood platelet or thrombocytes are the smallest blood cells. Their number ranges from 20,000 to 500,000 per cubic millimeter of blood. Platelets are useful to the body because they contain…

Tons of people die of Blood Cancer/Leukemia each year. Some survive but most don’t. You will find that some people are immune to it but others not. Doctors and scientists have not found an immediate remedy. Blood Cancer is cancer in the blood or bone marrow (which produces blood cells). A person that suffers from leukemia suffers from an unusual production of blood cells usually white blood cells. Although your white blood cells account for only about 1 percent of your blood, their impact is…

Jackie (Xiting) Lin Helping Man and His Best Friend Together Comparative oncology is the study of naturally occurring cancer in animals. Mike and Lois Writel support comparative oncology because it gave their dog a chance to live longer. There are specific genes related to cancer, which means some species are more susceptible to cancer than others; dogs fall in the former. Thus, dogs are potential models, and they share much of our genetic material. Mice are less preferred because their cancer…

On August 6, 2014, three year old Maggie Jacks was diagnosed with lymphoblastic leukemia, or blood cancer. Because Maggie had undergone chemotherapy, her immune system’s “hard drive” was completely wiped out, leaving her with a very venerable, and weak body. Because of her weakened immune system, she cannot be vaccinated. This became a huge problem for the Jacks family when they got a call one Sunday from the hospital telling them their child was exposed to measles by another child (Why…

Let me ask you something; How would you feel if a family member had any type of cancer? The family member is very close to you. How do you think a 14 year old would feel? This is one of the questions they ask in DRUMS, GIRLS+DANGEROUS PIE, by Jordan Sonnenblick. The protagonist is Steven Alper. Imagine everyday thinking, will your little brother die today? That’s what Steven Alper feels everyday. He wants his brother to get better, because he knows his life will change forever. Steven is a…

Cancer, a disease caused by an uncontrolled division of abnormal cells in parts of the body is an illness that ravishes the lives of many.There are approximately 100 different types of cancers known to us today, yet contracting even one of them can cause serious issues and can even result in fatality. Cancer is one of the leading causes of death in children and adolescents. Children affected by these diseases have to overcome many obstacles just to survive.There are many misconceptions believed…

I found that this novel was quite unique in that it laid out a detailed examination of the history of cancer and how treatments were created, along with a detailed description of the author’s personal experience during the early days of oncology. The author of Emperor of all Maladies: A Biology of Cancer, Siddhartha Mukherjee, was able to lay out all of the aspects of cancer and the battle of trying to treat, prevent, and cure it. Since the 1800s, doctors have been pushing and hoping for a…