What are the symptoms of cancer, preferably luekemia?
Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia is a malignancy (cancer) of excessive lymphocyte (a type of white blood cell) production. Description of Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia Your bone marrow is the spongy tissue inside the large bones in your body. The bone marrow makes red blood cells (which carry oxygen and other materials to all tissues of the body), white blood cells (which fight infection), and platelets (which make your blood clot). Lymphocytes are one type of white blood cell. Normally, bone marrow cells called blasts develop (mature) into several different types of blood cells that have specific jobs to do in the body. The lymph system is made up of thin tubes that branch, like blood vessels, into all parts of the body. Lymph vessels carry lymph, a colorless, watery fluid that contains lymphocytes. Along the network of vessels are groups of small, bean-shaped organs called lymph nodes. Clusters of lymph nodes are found in the underarm, pelvis, neck and abdomen. The spleen (an organ in the
