HSC 4555 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: B Cell, Acute Myeloid Leukemia, Antibody
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Indicative of a disorder or disease if the count is too high. Leukemia is a tumor or neoplasm of the blood (cancer of the blood or bone marrow) Broad term for a spectrum of disease in the blood. If you have a lymphoma it will be due to lymphoid stem cell. If the lymphoma escapes it is a lymphoma still going through a leukemic phase. Will arise at one specific site and then spread in a specific way (can trace where the disease will spread) thus treatment is easier. Will spread all over the place (unable to trace where the disease is spread) *even if it infiltrates into a lymph node it is still a leukemia: acute myeloid. Acute (immature cell/blast) doesn"t have any real function. Too many of one myeloid stem cell (neutrophil/etc. ) causes an issue: myeloproliferative disease. Not normal/functional, anatomically and physically do not serve any function. Stomatitis-oral red vesicle, look exactly like a cold sore.
