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Acute Lymphocytic Leukemia

What is leukemia?

Leukemia is a term for cancers of the blood cells. Leukemia starts in blood-forming tissues such as the bone marrow. Your bone marrow makes the cells which will develop into white blood cells, red blood cells, and platelets. Each type of cell has a different job:

  • White blood cells help your body fight infection
  • Red blood cells deliver oxygen from your lungs to your tissues and organs
  • Platelets help form clots to stop bleeding

When you have leukemia, your bone marrow makes large numbers of abnormal cells. This problem most often happens with white blood cells. These abnormal cells build up in your bone marrow and blood. They crowd out the healthy blood cells and make it hard for your cells and blood to do their work.

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Results 1 - 10 of 216 for Acute myelogenous leukemia
  1. Acute Myeloid Leukemia (National Library of Medicine)  
    What is leukemia? Leukemia is a term for cancers of the blood cells. Leukemia starts in blood-forming tissues such as the bone marrow. Your bone marrow ...
    https://medlineplus.gov/acutemyeloidleukemia.html - Health Topics
  2. Acute myeloid leukemia - adult 
    Acute myeloid leukemia (AML) is cancer that starts inside bone marrow. This is the soft tissue in the center ... Faderl S, Kantarjian HM. Clinical manifestations and treatment of acute myeloid leukemia. In: Hoffman R, Benz EJ, Silberstein LE, et ...
    https://medlineplus.gov/ency/article/000542.htm - Medical Encyclopedia
  3. Acute myeloid leukemia (AML) - children 
    Acute myeloid leukemia is a cancer of the white blood cells within the blood and bone marrow. Bone marrow ... become cancerous. Both adults and children can get acute myeloid leukemia (AML). This article is about AML in children.
    https://medlineplus.gov/ency/article/007656.htm - Medical Encyclopedia
  4. Cytogenetically normal acute myeloid leukemia 
    ... as familial acute myeloid leukemia with mutated CEBPA. Acute myelogenous leukemia with normal karyotype CN-AML NK-AML Normal ...
    https://medlineplus.gov/...genetically-normal-acute-myeloid-leukemia - Genetics
  5. Core binding factor acute myeloid leukemia 
    Core binding factor acute myeloid leukemia (CBF-AML) is one form of a cancer of the blood-forming tissue (bone marrow) called acute myeloid leukemia. In normal ...
    https://medlineplus.gov/...ore-binding-factor-acute-myeloid-leukemia - Genetics
  6. Acute Myelogenous Leukemia (AML) (Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research)  
    Acute Myeloid Leukemia/Start Here ... Acute Myeloid Leukemia ... Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research
    https://www.mayoclinic.org/.../symptoms-causes/syc-20369109?p=1 - External Health Links
  7. Familial acute myeloid leukemia with mutated CEBPA 
    Familial acute myeloid leukemia with mutated CEBPA is one form of a cancer of the blood-forming tissue (bone marrow) called ...
    https://medlineplus.gov/...acute-myeloid-leukemia-with-mutated-cebpa - Genetics
  8. RUNX1T1 gene 
    ... cancerous leukemia cells. More About This Health Condition acute myelogenous leukemia 1 translocation 1, cyclin-D related AML1T1 CBFA2T1 ...
    https://medlineplus.gov/genetics/gene/runx1t1 - Genetics
  9. Sargramostim 
    ... the chance of infection in people who have acute myelogenous leukemia (AML; a type of cancer of the white ...
    https://medlineplus.gov/druginfo/meds/a693005.html - Drugs and Supplements
  10. Idarubicin 
    Idarubicin is used treat acute myelogenous leukemia (AML; a type of cancer of the white blood cells) in combination with other medications. Idarubicin is in a class ...
    https://medlineplus.gov/druginfo/meds/a691004.html - Drugs and Supplements
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