As a student, my sister likes reading a book. She has many books collection. But, she has bad style if she is reading a book. She often taking lie down style and standing on her room with slightly dark lamp. And now, she has complaint of decrease her vision.
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Acute leukemia usually occurs in 3-6 patients per 100,000 inhabitants per year.
Acute lymphocytic leukemia is more common in children, being the most common tumor in childhood, is about 25 percent of all cancers in children younger than 15 years. The myeloid affects more adults, with an increasing incidence.
The prognosis for survival is worse with increasing age, are poor from 60 years and is also unfavorable when the diagnosis of acute leukemia in children (especially lymphocytes) occurs in children under 1 to 2 years and the older than 15 years.
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Bone marrow, which is inside the bones, is composed of hematopoietic cells by fat cells and supporting tissue.
Haematopoietic stem cells reproduce continuously to form new cells. Some of them will turn and other new stem cells, when mature, will become red cells, white cells and platelets.
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If the process of uncontrolled growth is done very quickly, so as to develop the number of extremely immature cells are called leukemia. If the process is slower, leading to the maturation of these cells, but not normal cells, but cancer is called chronic leukemia.
There are other classifications: thus we have the traditional classification, depending on the nature of the affected cell, which differentiates lymphoid leukemia and myeloid leukemia.
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