Acute lymphoblastic leukemia
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Acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) is a fast-growing cancer of the white blood cells. Lymphocytes are a type of white blood cell that the body uses to fight infections.
Acute Lymphoblastic Leukaemia
Acute lymphoblastic leukaemia (ALL) is a cancer of blood-forming cells in the bone marrow. Abnormal immature white blood cells (lymphoblasts) fill the bone marrow and spill into the bloodstream.
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Acute lymphoblastic leukemias (ALL), is a form of leukemia, or cancer of the white blood cells characterized by excess lymphoblasts.
Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia
Acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) is a type of blood cancer. Also known as acute lymphocytic leukemia or acute lymphoid leukemia, it is the least common type of leukemia in adults.
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Acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) is a cancer of the blood and bone marrow. Lymphocytes are a type of white blood cell. With ALL, the bone marrow makes too many of these cells.
Acute lymphoblastic leukaemia
Information on acute lymphoblastic leukaemia (ALL), including how it is diagnosed, treatments you might have, possible side effects and how to get further support.
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What is Acute Lymphoblastic Leukaemia?
Leukaemia is the name for a cancer where there is a malignant proliferation of stem cells within the bone marrow.
Acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) is a cancer of the blood and bone marrow. Lymphocytes are a type of white blood cell. With ALL, the bone marrow makes too many of these cells. ALL begins in immature lymphocytes. It progresses very quickly.
ACUTE LYMPHOBLASTIC LEUKEMIA OVERVIEW
Acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) is a cancer of blood cells. ALL is also known as lymphoblastic lymphoma when the disease primarily involves lymph nodes rather than the blood and bone marrow.
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Acute lymphoblastic leukemia
A fast-growing type of leukemia (blood cancer) in which too many lymphoblasts (immature white blood cells) are found in the blood and bone marrow. Also called ALL and acute lymphocytic leukemia.
Acute lymphoblastic leukaemia (ALL)
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Symptoms of ALL develop quickly; a person is likely to become very ill with symptoms of their leukaemia over a few days or weeks. Symptoms of acute leukaemia are listed under symptoms.
Precursor B-lymphoblastic leukemia, also known as B-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia and B-cell acute lymphocytic leukemia, is the most common type of acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL).
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Children treated for acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) or lymphoma report poorer emotional functioning, cognitive skills, autonomy, and family interaction than do children treated for non-CNS solid tumors.
acute lymphoblastic leukemia ALL. A fast-growing type of leukemia (blood cancer) in which too many lymphoblasts (immature white blood cells) are found in the blood and bone marrow. Also called ALL and acute lymphocytic leukemia.
Acute lymphoblastic leukemia: A form of leukemia that has a sudden onset and is characterized by the presence in the blood and bone marrow of large numbers of unusually immature white blood cells destined to become lymphocytes.
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PEG-asparaginase (as-PA-ruh-jih-NAYS) A drug used to treat acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL). It is a form of the drug asparaginase that is linked to a substance called PEG, which makes the drug stay in the body longer.
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acute lymphoblastic leukemia), and to classify the subtype of disease (see below). A sample of marrow or blood is typically also tested for chromosomal translocations by routine cytogenetics or fluorescent in situ hybridization.
The current causes of acute lymphoblastic leukemia in children or adults are not known. Scientists continue to explore possible relationships with lifestyle or environmental factors but no firm conclusions have yet been reached.
National Cancer Institute. Acute lymphoblastic leukemia - adult, treatment (PDQ). Accessed February 24, 2009.
National Cancer Institute. Acute lymphoblastic leukemia - childhood, treatment (PDQ). Accessed February 24, 2009.
Depending on the type of white blood cell affected, most acute leukaemia is either acute lymphoblastic leukaemia (ALL) or acute myeloid leukaemia (AML).
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Acute lymphocytic leukemia (ALL) is also known as acute lymphoid leukemia or acute lymphoblastic leukemia. The majority of childhood leukemias are of the ALL type. Malignancies in this disease can arise either in T-cell or B-cell lymphocytes.
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A quickly developing cancer of the blood forming system. There are 2 main types - acute myeloid leukaemia and acute lymphoblastic leukaemia. CancerHelp UK has sections about both these types of leukaemia.
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acute lymphocytic leukemia: ALL. A quickly progressing disease in which too many immature white blood cells called lymphoblasts are found in the blood and bone marrow. Also called acute lymphoblastic leukemia.
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