Category: Research
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Does COVID Cause Leukemia?
Can a COVID-19 infection or vaccination cause or “trigger” leukemia? This is a question I have often asked myself. My family and I were all vaccinated for COVID-19 multiple times between 2020 and 2021, and then we all contracted COVID while returning from a family trip to the UK in December 2021. We experienced mild…
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What is leukemia, anyway?
Leukemia is a blood cancer that causes the production of normal blood cells to go haywire. Leukemia is a broad term for cancers of the blood cells that originate in the bone marrow – the soft, spongy tissue inside bones where blood cells are produced. In a healthy body, bone marrow stem cells mature into healthy white blood cells,…