Leukemia-Genetics

Other Information About Leukemia

 ﻿﻿﻿There is two different types of leukemia, chronic lymphocytic, and acute lymphocytic. Chronic Lymphocytic effects adults and very few children. Acute Lymphocytic accounts for over 1/2 of child accounts. Only 5% of children with leukemia have a Chronic form. __More Boys get leukemia than girls, and leukemia is more common in caucations than in Africans__.


 * Leukemia is not contagious, so you cant get it from touching somebody. **

__Approximately 2,500 kids are diagnosed with leukemia every year in the United States. Also, in the United States approximately 25,00 adults are diagnosed every year with leukemia . __
 * Childhood leukemia is diagnosed between the ages 2 and 7. **

__ Radiation doesnt hurt, and is usually schedualed everyday execpt weekends. __ Children that already have a genetic disease such as down's syndrome or Fanconi's anemia have a higher rish of getting Leukemia.

__FAMOUS PEOPLE WITH LEUKEMIA: __ PEOPLE FOUND ON: []
 * MARY TRAVERS
 * ﻿MARY CURIE
 * ED BRADLEY
 * BILL WALSH

Go back to home page? CLICK:Leukemia Home Page information found in this book: Apel, Melanie Ann. Coping with leukemia. New York: Rosen Pub. Group, 2001. Print.