blood cancer Archives - Elite Care Family Medicine

Every four minutes, someone in the United States is diagnosed with a blood cancer. Despite this shocking statistics, many people do not know much about the disease, or any of the other blood cancers, until they are diagnosed. That’s why today we’re talking about Leukemia. Leukemia is a cancer of the bone marrow and blood (white blood cells, red blood cells, and platelets). It causes the DNA of immature white blood cells to become damaged in some way. This...