8 surprising fact about blood cancer leukemia

Leukemia or blood cancer is a cancer that attacks the blood cells and bone marrow. The disease is characterized by abnormal cell changes. Leukemia itself means white blood cell. So called because of leukemia patients have a lot of white blood cells are not normal. Here are some surprising facts about blood cancer, leukemia, as reported by Do Something.
 1. Every four minutes, one person in the United States are diagnosed with cancer of blood.

 2. Leukemia is not the only blood cancer. There are two other types of blood cancer that affects the lymphatic system lymphoma, and myeloma plasma cells that attack the body.

 3. More than one million people in the United States living with leukemia, lymphoma, or myeloma.

 4. Leukemia is a type of cancer is the 10th most affect people of all races and ethnicities.

 5. Every 10 minutes, one person in the United States died of blood cancer.

 6. Leukemia is the third cause of cancer deaths in children under the age of 15 years.

 7. Age is important to determine a person's risk of blood cancers, such as myeloma. people aged under 45 years are rarely affected by this disease. While people aged over 67 years had a higher risk.

 8. Men have a 31 percent higher risk of leukemia. They also have a greater risk of dying from the disease. 


Those are some facts that you may never know about the blood cancer leukemia and other blood cancers. This cancer is very dangerous and has infected many people in the world.

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