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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immune deficiency

Health care; Leukemia

Impaired ability of the body's defense mechanisms to combat infections by bacteria, viruses and fungi.

In a small proportion of patients, a progression in their CLL in which their disease becomes more characteristic of an aggressive lymphoma. This change is not a second cancer, but a transformation of ...

central nervous system (CNS) prophylaxis

Health care; Leukemia

In certain types of leukemia, particularly acute lymphoblastic leukemia and acute monocytic leukemia with high blood cell counts, there is a propensity of the leukemic cells to enter the covering of ...

amyloid

Health care; Leukemia

In myeloma, an abnormal protein made by malignant plasma cells. An amyloid deposit develops when parts of the immunoglobulin molecule, referred to as "light chains," deposit in tissues. In the type ...

fractionation of total body irradiation

Health care; Leukemia

In order to minimize the side effects of this type of therapy, the dose of radiation required is given in several smaller daily doses than one larger dose. This approach has decreased the side ...

fractionation of the dose

Health care; Leukemia

In order to minimize the significant side effects of total body irradiation conditioning therapy, the dose of radiation required is given in several daily smaller doses rather than one larger dose. ...

refractory anemia with ringed sideroblasts (RARS)

Health care; Leukemia

In some classification systems, the name for a subtype of myelodysplastic syndromes characterized by refractory anemia (RA) with an abnormal accumulation of iron granules around the nucleus. These ...