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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haplotype

Health care; Leukemia

The tissue type contributed by either the mother or father to his or her offspring. It is implied that it represents the genes on one parental chromosome. When a transplant procedure is between a ...

relapsed CLL

Health care; Leukemia

The term for CLL that responded to therapy but, after six or more months, stopped responding.

The presence of bacteria or fungi in the blood usually as a result of spread from another site of infection such as skin, bowel, or urinary tract. It is usually associated with high fever, shaking ...

chemotherapy

Health care; Leukemia

The use of chemicals (drugs or medications) to kill malignant cells. Numerous chemicals have been developed for this purpose, and most act to injure the DNA of the cancer cells. When the DNA is ...

ribonucleic acid (RNA)

Health care; Leukemia

There are several types of RNA. Messenger RNA is a copy of a stretch of DNA, a gene, that is transcribed into RNA, which is used by cells as a template for making a protein from individual amino ...

karyotype

Health care; Leukemia

The systematic arrangement, using images, of the 46 human chromosomes of a cell in 22 matched pairs (maternal and paternal member of each pair) by length from longest to shortest and other features. ...

cytogenetic analysis

Health care; Leukemia

The process of analyzing the number and size of the chromosomes of cells. In addition to detecting chromosome alterations, in some cases it is possible to identify the actual genes that have been ...