Leukemia in older adults causes symptoms like weight loss, fatigue, and night sweats. Your outlook depends on the type of leukemia you have. Leukemia is a type of cancer that affects the blood cells, ...

September is Leukemia and Lymphoma Awareness Month. An estimated 1,629,474 people in the United States (US) are living with or in remission from leukemia, lymphoma, myeloma, myelodysplastic syndromes ...

Chronic myeloid leukemia (CML) and chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) are two different types of leukemia. Both conditions affect white blood cells. CML affects a type of white blood cell called ...

Genetic testing for chronic myeloid leukemia (CML) can tell doctors if someone has leukemia, what type they may have, and whether treatment is working. The tests look for atypical changes in certain ...

Although rare, a red rash may indicate leukemia, which is a type of blood cancer. A leukemia rash can look like tiny dots, big plaques, or itchy bumps that do not turn white when you press them.

Leukemia, a cancer of the body’s blood-forming tissues including bone marrow and lymphatic system, affects approximately 60,530 Americans each year according to the American Cancer Society. While ...

A term that literally means "white blood," leukemia describes a variety of cancers that originate in bone marrow, the soft material where blood cells are produced. People with leukemia have marrow ...

In a new study presented at the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) Annual Meeting and published in Blood Cancer Discovery, titled, “Single-cell Transcriptional Atlas of Human ...

CHICAGO – A new gene expression atlas developed using single-cell RNA sequencing data shows how normal hematopoietic cells differentiate and was used to catalog the multiple ways that aberrant ...

Cancer is still the most common cause of death for men in the US ages 60 to 79 and women ages 40 to 79. For all adults combined, cancer is the second most common cause of death (after heart disease).