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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The transfusion of donor platelets may be required to treat or prevent bleeding in patients treated with high-dose chemotherapy or radiotherapy who develop severe platelet deficiency. The platelets ...

myeloid, myelocytic

Health care; Leukemia

The term's literal derivation is "originating from or produced in the marrow". It is applied to leukemias that originate in a marrow stem cell or early marrow progenitor cell, especially acute and ...

monoclonal gammopathy

Health care; Leukemia

The term applied to a group of diseases that result from the transformation of a B-Lymphocyte or its derivative cell, the plasma cell. One of the key features of these diseases is the production and ...

immunotherapy

Health care; Leukemia

The term for several treatment approaches used by physicians to harness the body's immune system mechanisms to treat lymphoma and other diseases. These therapies include monoclonal antibody therapy, ...

autologous stem cell infusion

Health care; Leukemia

This technique, often referred to as transplantation, involves 1) harvesting the patient's stem cells from blood or marrow, 2) freezing them for later use, and 3) thawing and infusing them via an ...

hematopoiesis

Health care; Leukemia

The process of blood cell development in the marrow. The most undeveloped cells in the marrow are stem cells. They start the process of blood cell development. The stem cells begin to develop into ...

apheresis

Health care; Leukemia

The process of removing components of a donor's blood and returning the unneeded parts to the donor. The process, also called "hemapheresis," circulates blood from a donor through a filter-type ...