MICROANATOMY

Detailed explanation-1: -Leukemia, a type of cancer found in your blood and bone marrow, is caused by the rapid production of abnormal white blood cells. The high number of abnormal white blood cells are not able to fight infection, and they impair the ability of the bone marrow to produce red blood cells and platelets.

Detailed explanation-2: -Leukemia is a type of cancer found in your blood and bone marrow and is caused by the rapid production of abnormal white blood cells.

Detailed explanation-3: -Leukocytosis refers to a high white blood cell count, which can occur for a number of reasons. Rarely, a high white blood cell count can be a symptom of certain blood cancers, such as acute myeloid leukemia, chronic myelogenous leukemia and chronic lymphocytic leukemia.

Detailed explanation-4: -Most often, leukemia is a cancer of the white blood cells, but some leukemias start in other blood cell types. There are several types of leukemia, which are divided based mainly on whether the leukemia is acute (fast growing) or chronic (slower growing), and whether it starts in myeloid cells or lymphoid cells.

Detailed explanation-5: -At the time of diagnosis, patients can have very, very high white blood cell counts. Typically a healthy person has a white blood cell count of about 4, 000-11, 000. Patients with acute or even chronic leukemia may come in with a white blood cell count up into the 100, 000-400, 000 range.