Juvenile Myelomonocytic Leukemia WisdomCard™
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Research Notes on Juvenile Myelomonocytic Leukemia
Juvenile Myelomonocytic Leukemia (JMML) is a serious chronic leukemia (cancer of the blood) that affects children mostly aged 4 and under. The average age of patients at diagnosis is 2 years old. JMML accounts for 1-2% of childhood leukemias each year; in the United States, an estimated 25-50 new cases are diagnosed each year, which also equates to about 3 cases per million children. There is no known environmental cause for JMML. Since about 10% of patients are diagnosed before 3 months of age, it is thought that JMML is a congenital condition in these infants. ...read more from Wikipedia
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- Contributor: Aimee Abellaneda
- Reviewer: Elisa Carter
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- Last update: Oct. 15, 2009
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- Contributor: Aimee Abellaneda
- Reviewer: Elisa Carter
- Supervised by: The OrganizedWisdom Physician Review Team
- Redirects: Juvenile myelomonocytic leukemia (JMML), JMML, Juvenile Chronic Myeloid Leukemia (JCML), Chronic Myelomonocytic Leukemia of Infancy, Infantile Monosomy 7 Syndrome
- Last update: Nov. 24, 2008
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