Leukemia Leukemia is a disease that affects blood-forming tissues, mainly bone marrow. Leukemia also affects the lymph glands and spleen. Leukemia causes the body to produce an extreme amount of abnormal white blood cells. This causes infections because the abnormal cells cannot stop infections like the normal cells do. Leukemia also causes anemia. Anemia is a disease in which the body makes less blood cells. This happens because the leukemic cells crowd the system. Leukemia …showed first 75 words of 462 total…

…showed last 75 words of 462 total…a healthy person, and then it is injected into the patient’s bloodstream. If no donors are available the patient can use his own bone marrow after the leukemic cells are removed. Antibiotics are given to get rid of the symptoms of the disease. By the year 2000 it is expected that 1 in 1000 adults will be a survivor of childhood leukemia. Bibliography: www.pt-able.com ww2.med.jhu.edu/canceretr/hematol/hemsdis.htm www.leukemia.org