Blood Cancer Awareness Month Posts on Medivizor

Posted by Kathleen Hoffman on Sep 27, 2020 in Blog, Leukemia | 2 comments

CLL or Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia results from a mutation in B lymphocytes, a type of white blood cell that develops in the bone marrow. B-cells produce antibodies, an important part of the immune system. CLL can be slow growing, with small slow changes in the blood counts over years or fast growing, where cancerous B-lymphocytes crowd out the bone...