See Also: ALL (acute lymphoblastic leukemia)(health)
Acute lymphoblastic leukemia(health)
acute lymphoblastic leukaemia(medicine)
common acute lymphoblastic leukaemia(medicine)
Acute leukemia(health)
Acute nonlymphocytic leukemia(health)
Acute promyelocytic leukemia(health)
Acute myeloid leukemia(health)
Acute myelogenous leukemia(health)
Acute lymphocytic leukemia(health)

Acute lymphoblastic leukemia (health)


"An acute (sudden onset), rapidly progressing form of leukemia that is characterized by the presence in the blood and bone marrow of large numbers of unusually immature white blood cells destined to become lymphocytes. Acute lymphoblastic leukemia is also called acute lymphocytic leukemia and is abbreviated ALL (spoken not as the word ""all"", but as the three letters A-L-L). ALL is the most common cancer occurring in children, representing almost 25% of cancer among children. There is a sharp peak in the incidence of ALL incidence among children ages 2 to 3. This peak is approximately fourfold greater than that for infants and is nearly 10-fold greater than that for youths who are 19 years old."