leukemia

Tumor

... Tumors of blood cells: hematopoietic cells: leukemia lymphoid cells: non-Hodgkin lymphoma , Hodgkin lymphoma Tumors of germ cells: Teratoma (mature teratoma, immature teratoma) An epithelial tumor is considered malignant if it penetrates the basal lamina and is considered benign i...

Stem cell

...o treat cancer patients with conditions such as leukemia and lymphoma . During chemotherapy , most growi...cytotoxic agents. These agents not only kill the leukemia or neoplastic cells, but also the stem cells needed to replace the killed cells as a patient recover...

Retrovirus

... Murine leukeamia virus ; others include Feline leukemia virus Genus Deltaretrovirus ; type species: Bovine leukaemia virus ; others include Human T-lymphotropic virus Genus Epsilonretrovirus ; type species: Walleye dermal sarcoma virus Genus Lentivirus ; type species: Human immunodef...

Oncogene

...g stem cell in the bone marrow leads to adult leukemia An increase in protein concentration, caused by an increase of protein expression (through misregulation) an increase of protein stability, prolonging its existence and thus its activity in the cell a gene duplication , resulting in a dou...

Gene therapy

...deficiency (SCID) were halted or restricted when leukemia was reported in several of the patients. Adenoviruses Adenoviruses are viruses that carry their genetic material in the form of DNA. When these viruses infect a host cell, they introduce their DNA molecule into the host. The genetic material of ...

Cancer

...nd bone marrow ) - hematological malignancies , leukemia , lymphoma , Hodgkin's disease , non-Hodgkin's ...t frequently occurring to least: neuroblastoma , leukemia , central nervous system, retinoblastoma , Wilms' tumor , germ cell, soft tissue sarcomas , hepat...