Nursery World - A Unique Child Health: A guide to ... Leukaemia

What practitioners may need to know about children with this serious disease is described by Jody Blake, information manager at Wellchild.

What is Leukaemia?
Leukaemia is a cancer of the white blood cells. There are four main
types of leukaemia:
- acute lymphoblastic (ALL)
- acute myeloid (AML)
- chronic lymphocytic (CLL)
- chronic myeloid (CML).

One third of all childhood cancers are leukaemia, and there are approximately 400 new cases occurring each year in the UK.

Acute lymphoblastic leukaemia is the most common type of leukaemia in children - it accounts for more than 80 per cent of cases. Acute myeloid leukaemia (AML) is the less common type of leukaemia found in children. Chronic leukaemias (CLL and CML) occur mostly in adults and are extremely rare in children and young people.

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