As we continue to hold industry accountable for unsafe human exposure to carcinogens, we will eventually ensure that the health of workers is not compromised through corporate wrecklessness or negligence. One of the still-troubling hazardous chemicals used widely in industry is benzene, a substance classified by the Department of Health and Human Services as a ...
Every year, almost 27,000 adults and in excess of 2,000 children in the United States are diagnosed with leukemia. Leukemia is a form of cancer. Cancer comes in the form of 100 different diseases that all carry two common characteristics. The first characteristic is that certain cells in the body become abnormal, and the second ...
Between 1996 and 2002, 49 percent of people diagnosed with leukemia lived for at least five years after their diagnosis (“Leukemia Facts and Statistics”). Even though this is much higher than the 14 percent survival rate between 1960 and 1963, surviving the cancer is not the end of their problems. As more people are surviving ...
Recently a cluster of polycythemia vera cancer, more commonly known simply as PV, was discovered in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Generally polycythemia vera is a rare cancer that does not traditionally cluster into case groups. However, in this instance, the victims of the condition all live near an industrial site and an investigation is ongoing to determine ...
As a leading cause of disease and illness in cats, feline leukemia has become a major health scare for cat owners. Protecting the health and security of a family cat is crucial. For this reason, understanding the cause, origin, symptoms and treatment options for feline leukemia may improve the longevity and health of the family ...
Being diagnosed with leukemia in the past has been a precarious diagnosis often resulting eventually in death. Scientists at U.C.I. in Irvine , California has discovered that a certain medication that they say will cure the type of leukemia that is known as chronic myeloid leukemia or C.M.L. The drug has been shown to drive ...
The white blood cells protect the body from infection, but when a white blood cell becomes cancerous it begins to reproduce in an uncontrolled way, so that the cancerous cells replace the normal blood cells. This cancer is known as leukemia, and leukemia left untreated would usually cause a fatal shortage of red blood cells, ...
Leukemia is commonly known as cancer of the blood or bone marrow. It’s really a broad term used to explain numerous conditions but more or less most instances are related to abnormalities in blood cell development usually related to white blood cells in general. There are treatments for some forms of the disease but it’s ...