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Fanconi Anemia Learning Center
Complications could include:
- Leukemia
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Myelodysplastic Syndromes
- Liver Cancer
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FA is an unpredictable illness. The average life expectancy for an affected individual is 22 years, but any one individual can have a life span that is quite different from this average. Research discoveries have led to life-extending treatments a...
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Because FA can be present without any outward symptoms, it is essential that any potential sibling donor for BMT be carefully tested for the disease using white blood cell exposure to DNA damaging agents or direct examination of their FANC gene co...
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FA is an unpredictable illness. The average life expectancy for an affected individual is 22 years, but any one individual can have a lifespan that is quite different from this average. Research discoveries have led to life-extending treatments an...
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A set of related cancers that form in the bone marrow and other blood-producing organs. Leukemia is named after the leukocytes, white blood cells which mutate before maturity and become cancerous. These cells reproduce rapidly, suppressing product...
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Leukemia is a group of bone marrow diseases involving an uncontrolled increase in white blood cells (leukocytes. For information about a specific type of leukemia, see the following: Acute lymphocytic leukemia (ALL; Acute myelogenous leukemia (AML...
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Leukemia is a cancer that starts in the organs that make blood, namely the bone marrow and the lymph system. Depending on specific characteristics, leukemia can be divided into two broad types: acute and chronic. Acute leukemias are the rapidly pr...
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Myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS) is a disease that is associated with decreased production of blood cells. Blood cells are produced in the bone marrow, and the blood cells of people with MDS do not mature normally. There are three major types of blo...
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Myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS) is a disease that is associated with decreased production of blood cells. Blood cells are produced in the bone marrow, and the blood cells of people with MDS do not mature normally. There are three major types of blo...
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Liver cancer is a form of cancer with a high mortality rate. Liver cancers can be classified into two types. They are either primary, when the cancer starts in the liver itself, or metastatic, when the cancer has spread to the liver from some othe...
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Liver cancer is a form of cancer with a high mortality rate. Liver cancers can be classified into two types. They are either primary, when the cancer starts in the liver itself; or metastatic, when the cancer has spread to the liver from some othe...
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Liver cancer is a form of cancer with a high mortality rate. Liver cancers are classified into two types. They are either primary, when the cancer starts in the liver itself; or metastatic, when the cancer has metastasized (spread) to the liver fr...
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Liver cancer is a form of cancer with a high mortality rate. Liver cancers can be classified into two types. They are either primary, when the cancer starts in the liver itself, or metastatic, when the cancer has spread to the liver from some othe...
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