All types of leukemia can lead to an enlarged spleen, but it generally occurs more frequently in chronic leukemias. Chronic leukemias develop slowly compared with acute leukemias which grow fast. In ...

Researchers at the University of Virginia School of Medicine have discovered a specific type of immune cell in the bone marrow of mice responsible for an aggressive, poorly understood form of leukemia ...

Leukemia causes the bone marrow to produce a large number of abnormal blood cells, which hinders its ability to create other essential blood cells like red blood cells and platelets, potentially ...

Since the first targeted therapies for blood cancer were developed more than 20 years ago, doctors and scientists have observed that many patients who respond well to these drugs initially end up ...

Acute myeloid leukemia (AML) is a type of leukemia, a cancer of the blood and bone marrow. AML specifically affects the myeloid cells, which are immature white blood cells. It is one of the most ...

While childhood leukemia is the most common type of cancer in children, leukemia in children younger than a year old is very rare. In fact, only about 160 infants in the United States are diagnosed ...

In a recent case report published in the journal Emerging Infectious Diseases, researchers described a neurologic disease caused by pigeon avian paramyxovirus type 1 (PPMV-1) that led to the death of ...

Contrary to previous belief, stem cells, from which all new blood cells are formed, remain in bone marrow in the blood cancer type acute lymphocytic leukemia. This disease, however, causes a hidden ...