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What happens when your red blood cells stop working in leukemia and how do we treat it?
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What is the opposite of leukemia?
Thalassemia - which affect the red blood cells as oppose to white blood cells in leukemia.
How can you be infected with leukemia?
Leukemia is NOT and infection. You cannot catch it. It is something that happens due to some kind of damage to the stem cells that are responsible for blood production.
What happens if that person has leukemia?
Uncontrolled and undesired Increase in number of White blood cells at the cost of RBCs
Disease that refers to white blood cells?
Leukemia, the prefix "leuke" means white blood,Leukemia is when you haev to many white blood cells.
What does Leukemia do to white blood cells Anddd How do white blood cells function in the body?
leukemia affects your white blood cells by killing the and your body cant make enough blood cells to fight infections
Does leukemia occur as a result of an excess or lack of white blood cells?
An excess of white blood cells can be an indicator of the presence of Leukemia.
Is polycythemia a characteristic of leukemia?
No. Polycythemia is an abnormally large number of red blood cells. Leukemia is the overproduction of immature white blood cells which hinders the synthesis of red blood cells.
What are the body cells affected by Leukemia?
White blood cells
What is a cancer of the cells that produce white blood cells?
Leukemia
A cancer that affects blood cells?
leukemia.
What disease is it when you have more red blood cells than white blood cells?
Leukemia.
Leukemia what does it mean?
The word leukemia comes from the Greek: White Blood Leukemias are the result of an abnormal development of leukocytes (white blood cells) and their precursors. Leukemia cells look different than normal cells and do not function properly.
