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Leukemia is a blood cancer in which abnormal cells crowd out the healthy ones the body needs.
means A cancer of the blood-forming tissues in which the body overproduces abnormal white blood cells that crowd out healthy ones.
from Coined in 1847 by the German pathologist Rudolf Virchow from Greek 'leukos' (white) plus 'haima' (blood). It describes what he saw under the microscope: blood with an unnatural excess of white cells. It took decades more research to understand the cancer underneath.
- actual problem
- too many white blood cells, not too few
- blood cancer category
- one of four main types, not one disease
- name origin
- greek for white blood, coined 1847
- treatment irony
- chemo kills fast-growing cells, including the good ones