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 clonal disease characterized by the over-production of blood cells by a mutant multipotential hematopoietic stem cell in the marrow. The hallmark of the disease is an increased number of red cells. ...

refractory anemia with excess blasts

Health care; Leukemia

A clonal myeloid disorder characterized by the marrow and blood features of refractory anemia but with overt leukemic myeloblasts evident in the marrow and sometimes the blood. Usually the marrow ...

refractory anemia

Health care; Leukemia

A clonal myeloid disorder that primarily affects red cell production in the marrow. In some cases the developing red cells have an abnormal accumulation of iron granules around the nucleus. These ...

lymphedema

Health care; Leukemia

A condition in which excess fluid collects in tissue and causes swelling. It may occur in the arm or leg after lymph vessels or lymph nodes in the underarm or groin are removed or treated with ...

aplastic anemia

Health care; Leukemia

A condition in which the bone marrow is unable to produce blood cells. Some persons with aplastic anemia have cells in their marrow with abnormal features that are similar to MDS cells and not ...

hypereosinophilic syndrome

Health care; Leukemia

A condition in which the number of eosinophils in the blood is markedly and persistently elevated with no apparent cause, such as an allergic disease or a parasitic infection. These patients have ...