This Type of Cancer is a Growing Concern in the Black Community

There are all different types of cancer. Leukemia is one type that involves the production of abnormal white blood cells in bone marrow. There are four different types of the more common forms of leukemia, but one type is increasing concern in the black community.

A study done in 2013 showed that African Americans with this type of cancer did not live as long as other patients with the disease, in spite of receiving the same treatment. It's called Chronic Myeloid Leukemia (CML), also known as chronic myelogenous leukemia). It primarily affects adults, and occurs in about 6,000 people in the U.S. every year. Although it represents 10-15 percent of all the different types of leukemia, it has become a growing concern for African Americans.

What researchers don't know is why people develop the disease. They also do not know why this form of leukemia is becoming more prevalent in the black community, or why blacks with CML may not live as long as other patients with the disease. Because of the disparity with which this cancer affects African Americans, it is definitely a cancer they need to know more about.

sickle cell anemia and now CML ??

a severe hereditary form of anemia in which a mutated form of hemoglobin distorts

the red blood cells into a crescent shape at low oxygen levels.

It is most common among those of African descent...

deh shud try and ind out what Planned Parenthood in  Port of Spain doing these days..what deh occupied with currently ::LOL:: ::LOL:: ::LOL::

do deh even have a lab  in TT dat can tell if  is the same cancer dat  kill Chavez ::LOL:: ::LOL::

[quote author=mapoui link=topic=106134.msg712602#msg712602 date=1473781606]
is the same cancer dat  kill Chavez ::LOL::
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depends ...anemia is red ...CML is white in the marrow : African blood

Chavez was Spanish blood.

[quote author=ketchim link=topic=106134.msg712615#msg712615 date=1473784446]
depends ...anemia is red ...CML is white in the marrow : African blood

Chavez was Spanish blood.
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Chavez was black too. wat yuh bline.  he was mix but mostly black :

Bill Gates, Obama and Clinton must be behind this! ::LOL:: ::LOL:: ::LOL:: ::LOL::

[quote author=Goog Lee, P.I. link=topic=106134.msg712625#msg712625 date=1473785850]
Bill Gates, Obama and Clinton must be behind this! ::LOL:: ::LOL:: ::LOL:: ::LOL::
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naw.  you!  ::LOL:: ::LOL:: ::LOL:: ::LOL::