Acute Leukemias

Question 1

What is leukamia

Answer 1

Leukamia is a colonal disease resulting from genetic mutation and transformation of a single early hematopoietic progenitor cell

Question 2

Leukamia can be classified based on

Answer 2

Based on cell maturity and cell type

Question 3

Biomodal incidence occur in

Answer 3

Acute lymphoblastic leukamia

Question 4

Explain the Bimodal occurrence that occurs in acute lymphoblastic leukamia

Answer 4

Acute lymphoblastic leukamia occurs usually in children less than 10 years of age
The first peak happens at age 2-3 years old while the second peak happens at age 60
But normally occurs mostly in children doesn’t mean that it cannot happen in adult