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leukaemia (esp US), leukemia an acute or chronic disease characterized by a gross proliferation of leucocytes, which crowd into the bone marrow, spleen, lymph nodes, etc., and suppress the blood-forming apparatus How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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It showed enhanced myelo-, erythro-, and thrombopoesis with slight lymphopenia but no leukemic cells. The leukemic cells crowd out normal blood cells, resulting in anemia, susceptibility to infection, and bruising. In this disease, the frequency of the leukemic stem cell (LSC) was approximately 1 per million AML blasts, establishing that not every AML cell had T-IC capacity. |
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