Leukemia or blood cancer is a chronic disease that can develop over many years without showing obvious symptoms
The immune system is responsible for protecting the body against agents that may cause damage.
Therefore, in the blood are white blood cells that although they live only a few hours, renewing all the time in the bone marrow that is located within a few bones and is responsible for producing them.
But when the space that occurs in bone marrow is invaded by malignant or atypical cells that grow in an unlimited, can not function normally and develop a cancer called leukemia. (more…)