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Definition of Leukemia

Leukemia: Cancer of the blood cells. The growth and development of the blood cells are abnormal. Strictly speaking, leukemia should refer only to cancer of the white blood cells (the leukocytes) but in practice it can apply to malignancy of any cellular element in the blood or bone marrow, as in red cell leukemia (erythroleukemia).

Leukemia is a type of cancer. Cancer is a group of more than 100 diseases that have two important things in common. One is that certain cells in the body become abnormal. Another is that the body keeps producing large numbers of these abnormal cells.

Each year, nearly 27,000 adults and more than 2,000 children in the United States learn that they have leukemia.

Common Misspellings: leukaemia, lukemeya, lukemia, luekemia, leukimia

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