Leukemia (blood cancer) is a type of disease that attacks cells - white blood cells produced by bone marrow (Bone Marrow). Bone marrow or bone marrow in the human body produces three types of blood cells such as the white blood cells (which function as the immune system / immune system against infection), red blood cells (carry oxygen function into the body) and platelets (small parts of cells which helps blood clotting).
Leukemia is a part of the cancer, which the general public to call with a blood cancer that occurs in the cells - blood cells.
In the case of leukemia, white blood cells did not respond to the signals given that excessive production and uncontrolled and eventually exit from the bone marrow and can be found in the peripheral blood or peripheral blood. Someone with this condition (leukemia) will show symptoms of this deperti: susceptible to infectious diseases, anemia and bleeding.
Leukemia in general has appeared in person at an early age, in which the bone marrow without obvious cause has been producing white blood cells develop abnormally ayng. Normally, white blood cells to reproduce again when needed by the body or there is a place for the blood cells themselves. The human body will give signals or signs on a regular basis if the blood cells needed to be re-reproduction.