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How does acute leukemia starts?

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∙ 14y ago

Updated: 8/19/2019

It starts in the bone marrow. It i s immature white blood cells that never mature into regular functioning white blood cells. The immature cells keep dividing at a rapid rate and as soon as the bone marrow gets too crowded they spill out into the blood stream.

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