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What is acute lymphocytic leukemia?

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• February 21, 2026

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Healthtree contact Greg Knight, MD

Greg Knight, MD

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What is acute lymphocytic leukemia.

So ALL is acute lymphoblastic leukemia.

What that means is it's a problem with making white blood cells.

So specifically, we're not making this type of so called the lymphoma lymphocyte.

And that's where the lymphoblastic come from.

Lymphocytes are cells that help fight viruses,

and they help a lot with the immune system.

And what happens is, instead of making normal lymphocytes, we make the wrong.

So we make a cancer cell, what we call a blast.

So and when you make too many of those, that's what we call aloe

or acute lymphoblastic leukemia.

 

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