Researchers at the University of Virginia School of Medicine have discovered a specific type of immune cell in the bone marrow of mice responsible for an aggressive, poorly understood form of leukemia ...

Leukemia cutis can happen when leukemia cells enter your skin. This rare condition causes patches of discolored skin to appear on the body. In some cases, the appearance of leukemia cutis lesions on ...

Since the first targeted therapies for blood cancer were developed more than 20 years ago, doctors and scientists have observed that many patients who respond well to these drugs initially end up ...

All types of leukemia can lead to an enlarged spleen, but it generally occurs more frequently in chronic leukemias. Chronic leukemias develop slowly compared with acute leukemias which grow fast. In ...

Leukemia causes the bone marrow to produce a large number of abnormal blood cells, which hinders its ability to create other essential blood cells like red blood cells and platelets, potentially ...

Acute myeloid leukemia (AML) is a type of leukemia, a cancer of the blood and bone marrow. AML specifically affects the myeloid cells, which are immature white blood cells. It is one of the most ...

A little over a month after revealing to the world that she'd been diagnosed with cancer, Tatiana Schlossberg has died at age 35. "Our beautiful Tatiana passed away this morning," her family wrote in ...

UA scientists are seeking definitive links between recent unexplained leukemia clusters and surrounding environmental factors in an attempt to understand mysterious child cancer cases in Fallon, Nev., ...

You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. ANSWER: “Leukemia” comes from the Greek roots for “white blood” because an ...

Every year, 1.1 million new cases of blood cancers are diagnosed worldwide. Presently, chemotherapy remains the most common and effective course of treatment. However, the emergence of more aggressive ...

Dear Dr. Roach: My husband was diagnosed with chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) in 2010 and remained in stage 2 with no effects until 2022. In the interim, he was also diagnosed with atrial ...