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...lymphocytic leukemia (ALL), Acute myeloid leukemia (AML), Chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL), Chronic myeloid leukemia (CML). Researchers continue to do this in an attempt to answer the following questions: What is Leukemia? What are the causes of leukemia? Who is at risk of developing leukemia? What are the treatments for it? What is Leukemia? Leukemia, as stated, is any one of over 100 forms of cancer in the blood affecting red and white blood cells as well as the platelets. More specifically leukemia is a disease that begins with the production of blood cells in the bone marrow. Normal blood cells are made up of fluid called plasma. There is also three kinds of blood cells there is the white also called WBC’s or leukocytes which help the body fight infection, the next is red blood cells also known as erythrocytes which carry oxygen from the lungs and it also takes carbon dioxide from the tissues back to the lungs, the last is the platelets which helps the blood clot it also controls bleeding. Blood cells are formed in the bone marrow which is the soft, spongy center of the bones normal blood cells are produced in an orderly fashion which helps...