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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hyperleukocytosis

Health care; Leukemia

An extremely elevated white cell count found in patients with leukemia at the time of diagnosis. This circumstance occurs most frequently in patients with CML. If the condition is severe enough, ...

fluorine-18-fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography (FDG-PET)

An imaging technique used to locate lymphoma masses. In this technique, glucose, a type of sugar, is labeled with a positron particle emitting a radioisotope such as fluorine-18. The utilization of ...

progenitor cell

Health care; Leukemia

An immature cell in the marrow that can be isolated by growing suspensions of marrow cells in culture dishes with added growth factors. Depending on the factors added, one can identify progenitors of ...

age-adjusted rate

Health care; Leukemia

An incidence or mortality rate that has been adjusted to reduce the effects of differences in the age distribution of the populations being compared. Since many diseases have a different frequency in ...

macroglobulinemia

Health care; Leukemia

An increase of one type of immunoglobulin referred to as macroglobulin. It differs from other immunoglobulin molecules in being five times the size of standard-sized immunoglobulin. In this disease ...