Where is hairy cell leukemia located in my body?

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Where is hairy cell leukemia located in my body?

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So as I said, hairy cell leukemia is a cancer of blood cells.

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So the blood cells are produced in bone marrow.

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That's the factory of all our blood cells.

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So that's where hairy cell leukemia will be found.

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It's found predominantly in the bone marrow.

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We will see some of it and floating in the blood.

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That's where you see those hair cells reported on the slide reports.

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And then in spleen, the hairy cell leukemia

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cells like to concentrate in the spleen are sometimes in the liver.

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Usually we see with these

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leukemias, chronic leukemias, lymph nodes also as well.

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But that's not very common with classical hairy cell leukemia.

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So it usually likes to stay in the bone marrow and the spleen.