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Childhood Leukemia

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Encyclopedia of Child Behavior and Development

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Acute lymphocytic leukemia (ALL); Acute myelogenous leukemia (AML); Acute promyelocytic leukemia (APL); Chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL); Chronic myelogenous leukemia (CML); Juvenile myelomonocytic leukemia (JMML); Mixed lineage leukemia

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Leukemia is a progressive cancer of bone marrow and other blood-forming organs, in which abnormal leukocytes are produced and spread to other organs of the body.

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Leukemia, one of the most common forms of cancer in children, can appear as soon as the age of one or as late as the early teen years. While childhood leukemia is considered to be a rare disease, it accounts for 33% of all childhood cancers. Approximately one in one thousand children will be diagnosed with leukemia by the age of 19 but it is more common in children under the age of ten. The American Cancer Society projects that three out of four children diagnosed with leukemia will have acute lymphocytic leukemia (ALL). Most of the remaining will be acute...

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  1. Department of Psychology, Our Lady of the Lake University Community Counseling Service, San Antonio, TX, 78228, USA

    Bernadette Hassan Solórzano & Karissa M. Gilmore

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  1. Bernadette Hassan Solórzano
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  1. Neurology, Learning and Behavior Center, 230 South 500 East, Suite 100, Salt Lake City, Utah, 84102, USA

    Sam Goldstein Ph.D.

  2. Department of Psychology MS 2C6, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, 22030, USA

    Jack A. Naglieri Ph.D. (Professor of Psychology) (Professor of Psychology)

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Solórzano, B.H., Gilmore, K.M. (2011). Childhood Leukemia. In: Goldstein, S., Naglieri, J.A. (eds) Encyclopedia of Child Behavior and Development. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-79061-9_536

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