Tag: Leukemia
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Leukemia FAQs
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Things I Wish I’d Known When I was Diagnosed Hearing the words, “You have leukemia,” stops time. For a moment, the world continues spinning while you are stuck in a vacuum of confusion, fear, and medical jargon. When you are first diagnosed, your focus is entirely on survival. But once the initial shock wears off,…
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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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Join the Donor Registry, Change a Life.
Stem cell donors are often a patient’s only chance at a cure for leukemia. When a patient is initially diagnosed with leukemia, they are placed into a risk category based on the types of genetic mutations associated with their particular type of leukemia. Any patient who falls into the intermediate to high risk category is…
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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,…
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Leukemia in your Twenties
A physical, mental, and financial nightmare. Leukemia Can Be Particularly Devastating for Young Adults Leukemia (or any type of cancer, for that matter) is a terrifying diagnosis at any age. To have to deal with life-altering cancer treatments, chemotherapy, immunosuppression, infertility, bone marrow transplants, and quite literally come to terms with your own mortality in…