While leukemia affects adults as well as children, leukemia is the most common cancer among children and teenagers, accounting for 34% of all childhood cancer. The majority of childhood leukemia is acute, the American Cancer Society expressed. This includes acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL), acute myelogenous leukemia (AML), and a hybrid of the two. ALL originates […]
Leukemia is a deadly disease that affects nearly 50,000 people within the United States every year, and accounts for 65% of all childhood cancers in the US. Acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) has a peak incidence between 2 and 5 years of age, and is the least common type of leukemia found in adults, according to […]
Leukemia is cancer of white blood cells known to take the lives of 24,000 patients every year in the United States. There are many different types of leukemia, reflecting the diversity of the different types of white cells found in the human body and the different ages at which leukemia can develop. The most common […]