Leukemia is more common than most people realize
Leukemia is a cancer that begins not in an organ or a tumor, but in the bone marrow itself, the soft tissue buried inside bones where every blood cell in the body gets its start. When the DNA of a single developing cell mutates, something breaks in the system. That cell starts multiplying without stopping, […]
Why leukemia respond differently depending on when and how it is caught
Leukemia begins in the bone marrow, the soft tissue inside bones where blood cells are produced, and its early progression is largely invisible to the person it is happening to. The disease involves the uncontrolled production of abnormal white blood cells that crowd out the healthy blood cell populations the body needs to fight infection, […]