BY BRANDON HAMM Leukemia

Fever & Night sweat Headaches. Bruising or bleeding easily. Bone or joint pain. A swollen or painful belly from an enlarged spleen. Swollen lymph nodes in the armpit, neck, or groin. Getting a lot of infections. Feeling very tired or weak. Losing weight and not feeling hungry Symptoms

Common Usually Affected (CLL) is the most common for adults (AML) is the most common for children (JMML) is the most common for juveniles In 2009 rates where at 44,000 adults a year would have it ages through 65+ Children ages (0-14) rates would be 3,500- 5,000 This rates have grown 3.4 percent since then Prevalence

Leukemia is a blood or bone marrow, which produces blood cells a person with type of cancer a person suffers from abnormal production of blood cells which mean they have a lot more white blood cells then normal Mainly white cells, becomes damaged, This abnormality causes the blood cells to grow and divide chaotically. Normal blood cells die after a while and are carried out by new cells which are produced in the bone marrow which causes this cancer Causes

Leukemia treatments are bases upon factors such as, age and overall health also depends if the cancers cells have spread all over the body Chemotherapy is the major drug Biological therapy helps immune system Targeted therapy attack's strongest spot Radiation therapy uses X-rays or other high-energy beams to damage leukemia cells and stop their growth cell transplant. A stem cell transplant is a procedure to replace your diseased bone marrow with healthy bone marrow Treatments

Elderly Youth Every day 129 Elderly people are told they have leukemia There have been 12,000 elderly people that have died from this so far this year Everyday 216 people ages 0-15 are told they have leukemia 10,600 estimate died this year from this cancer Interesting Facts

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