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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allogeneic stem cell transplantation

Health care; Leukemia

The transfer of stem cells from one person, the donor, to another, the recipient who is not an identical twin. In practice one makes an effort to find a donor who is very similar in tissue type to ...

differentiation

Health care; Leukemia

The process by which stem cells transform from cells without a specific structural or functional characteristics into functional cells of a single blood cell line. The process of differentiation of ...

monocyte

Health care; Leukemia

A type of white cell that represents about 5 to 10 percent of the cells in normal human blood. The monocyte and the neutrophil are the two major microbe-eating and microbe-killing cells in the blood. ...

tolerance

Health care; Leukemia

A very important event in the long-term success of transplantation. After a time, usually a year or so, the prior host and donor T lymphocytes die off and new lymphocytes are formed from the donor's ...

megakaryocyte

Health care; Leukemia

A very large (giant) cell in the marrow. It sheds its cytoplasm in small fragments, which become the blood platelets.

leukocyte

Health care; Leukemia

A white blood cell. Refers to a blood cell that does not contain hemoglobin. White blood cells include lymphocytes, neutrophils, eosinophils, macrophages, and mast T-cells. These cells are made by ...