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Leukemia – blood cancers
Leukemia is a malignancy that can be chronic or acute.
The most common forms of these cancers are chronic leukemias are divided into three types: chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL), chronic myeloid leukemia (CML) and non-Hodgkins lymphoma (NHL) that there is great variety. With CML LLC and can survive fifteen or even twenty years while with lymphoma survival and much more variable. The rare mantle cell lymphoma (lymphoma or mantle cell), for example, the median survival is
two to three years.
All these cancers have their origins in a genetic mutation that stop apoptosis, the programmed suicide, leukocytes, the white blood cells. Accordingly leukocytes proliferate at the expense of erythrocytes, red blood cells and thrombocytes or platelets.