Question

What's Leukemia and how it affected people in the 21st century?

Answer 1

Answer:

Leukemia is a type of cancer that affects the body's blood-forming cells in the bone marrow and lymphatic system. It can take one of several forms and spread at different rates, but most types of leukemia disrupt the production of healthy white blood cells that are designed to multiply, fight infections and die off.

Answer 2

Explanation:

Chronic Myeloid Leukaemia (CML) is a clonal, myeloproliferative disease that develops when a single, pluripotential, haemopoetic stem cell acquires the Philadelphia chromosome. CML was the first haematological malignancy to be associated with a specific genetic lesion. First recognised in 1845, CML exhibits a consistent chromosomal abnormality in leukaemic cells, identified in 1960 by Nowell and Hungerford, termed the Philadelphia (Ph) chromosome1. The cytogenetic hallmark of CML was identified in 1973 as the reciprocal translocation t(9;22)(q34:11).

A cancer of blood-forming tissues, hindering the body's ability to fight infection.

Leukaemia is cancer of blood-forming tissues, including bone marrow. Many types exist such as acute lymphoblastic leukaemia, acute myeloid leukaemia and chronic lymphocytic leukaemia.