Leucemia
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Cancer of the blood cells. The growth and development of the blood cells are abnormal. Strictly speaking, [leukemia] should refer only to cancer of the [white blood cells] (the leukocytes) but in practice it can apply to malignancy of any cellular element in the blood or bone marrow, as in [red cell] leukemia (erythroleukemia).
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