How does someone get leukemia?!?
In general, cancer occurs when cells divide without a check or a control. This uncontrolled division leads to faulty cells that do not perform the proper tasks – as in leukemia, or it produces a tumour as in most other cancers. In AML Leukemia, the cells that produce white blood cells are cancerous and produce a great number of nonfunctional WBCs. It isn’t known exactly what causes leukemia but there are several ideas about what exactly causes the uncontrolled division of these cells. Risk factors include exposure to high amounts of radiation, previous rounds of chemotherapy, high exposure to benzene, smoking, some genetic problems such as Downs Syndrome, and sometimes faulty genes inherited.
