Leukemia

Leukemia

The prevention and treatment of leukemia -- cancer of the blood or bone marrow. The disease is characterized by an abnormal increase of immature white blood cells.

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Leukemia

A medical procedure that involves testing a sample of blood, urine, or other substance from the body. Tests can help determine a diagnosis, plan treatment, check to see if treatment is working, or ...

immunophenotyping

Health care; Leukemia

A method that uses the reaction of antibodies with cell antigens to determine a specific type of cell in a sample of blood cells, marrow cells or lymph node cells. The antibodies react with specific ...

fungus

Health care; Leukemia

A microbe often referred to as mold or yeast. There are many species of fungi and some are prone to become infectious in immunosuppressed patients such as after stem cell transplantation or after ...

virus

Health care; Leukemia

A minute microbe made of DNA or RNA, too small to be seen with a light microscope, which depends on the cell it infects for its replication and survival.

oligoblastic myelogenous leukemia

Health care; Leukemia

A more accurate term for describing the disorder referred to as "refractory anemia with excess blasts." The latter name is commonly used to designate a type of myelodysplastic syndrome that displays ...

BCR-ABL cancer gene

Health care; Leukemia

A mutant gene that is formed when a piece of chromosome 9 attaches to the end of chromosome 22. The BCR-ABL cancer gene gives the cell instructions to make a protein that leads to CML.

oncogene

Health care; Leukemia

A mutated gene that is the cause of a cancer. Several subtypes of acute myelogenous leukemia, acute lymphoblastic leukemia and lymphoma, and nearly all cases of chronic myelogenous leukemia are ...