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White blood cells, red blood cells, and platelets.
What is Blood made up of?
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Approximately 3 minutes.
Around how many minutes does one person in the U.S. is diagnosed with blood cancer?
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4.5 to 5.5 million cells/mm3.
4,500 to 11,000 WBCs per microliter.
What is the normal range for a red blood cell and white?
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3 years.
How long does male treatment last?
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Complete blood count (blood test).
How is Leukemia usually diagnosed?
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ALL, AML, CLL, and CML.
What are the four main types of Leukemia?
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Approximately 9 minutes.
Around how many minutes does one person in the U.S. die from blood cancer?
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103 F (39.4 C) or higher.
What number of the fever temperature means you must go to the hospital?
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2 and a half years.
How long does a female treatment last?
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Chemotherapy and Radiation therapy.
What are two therapy treatment used to treat Leukemia
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Leukemia starts when the DNA of a single cell in the bone marrow mutates and can't develop and function normally.
How does Leukemia start?
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23,100 people.
In 2020 around how many people were expected to die from Leukemia?
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Almost 16,000.
In 2010, how many people were diagnosed with Leukemia?
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Tamara Jo Stevens, believed to be the longest survivor of the earliest bone-marrow transplants for leukemia, has died at age 54.
Who was the longest person to have lived with leukemia and how long?
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chemo uses special drugs to shrink or kill cancer cells, and radiation kills cells with high-energy beams (such as X-rays or protons.).
What are chemo and radiation jobs?
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Based on its speed of progression and the type of cells involved.
How is Leukemia classified?
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An estimated 1,297,027 people.
Around how many people in the U.S are either living with or in remission from leukemia, lymphoma, or myeloma.
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34 minutes.
Approximately how many minutes is one person in Canada diagnosed with blood cancer?
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Men are more likely than women to develop leukemia.
What gender is more likely to develop Leukemia
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Patients will often need to stay in the hospital for 3 to 4 weeks during treatment.
How long do you stay in the hospital for leukemia?
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Fever, chills, and other flu-like symptoms, weakness, and fatigue, loss of appetite and weight loss, tiny red spots under the skin, swollen or bleeding gums, sweating (especially at night).
What are some symptoms of Leukemia?
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60,530 people.
In 2020 how many people were expected to be diagnosed with Leukemia?
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Scientists don't understand the exact causes of leukemia.
What is the exact cause of Leukemia?
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The bone marrow produces an excessive amount of abnormal white blood cells.
What does the bone marrow produce
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The drugs can affect patient fertility (Women's periods may become irregular or stop, and never come back at all and Men may stop producing sperm).
What are some long term chemo side effects
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