Tag: Treatments
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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…