stethoscope and heart with text leukemia. leukemia is a type of cancer that affects the blood and bone marrow, where blood cells

leukemia blood cancer bone marrow white cells red platelets acute myeloid aml chronic cml leukemic symptoms fatigue weakness anemia bleeding bruising enlarged lymph nodes petechiae easy recurrent infections pain treatment chemotherapy radiation therapy stem cell transplant targeted immunotherapy clinical trials remission relapse subtypes philadelphia chromosome lymphoblasts myeloblasts hematologic malignancy risk factors genetic predisposition environmental occupational exposure children adults prognosis staging tests biopsy cytogenetic analysis flow cytometry support groups coping stethoscope heart text type affects produced leukemia produced