{"id":172541,"date":"2023-09-21T23:24:28","date_gmt":"2023-09-22T04:24:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/3-facts-about-acute-lymphocytic-leukemia-in-children"},"modified":"2023-09-21T23:24:28","modified_gmt":"2023-09-22T04:24:28","slug":"3-facts-about-acute-lymphocytic-leukemia-in-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/3-facts-about-acute-lymphocytic-leukemia-in-children","title":{"rendered":"3 Facts About Acute Lymphocytic Leukemia in Children"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/3-facts-about-acute-lymphocytic-leukemia-in-children.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>September is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aacr.org\/patients-caregivers\/awareness-months\/childhood-cancer-awareness-month\/#:~:text=September%20is%20Childhood%20Cancer%20Awareness%20Month%20%7C%20The%20AACR\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Childhood Cancer Awareness Month<\/a>. The most common type of childhood cancer is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mayoclinic.org\/diseases-conditions\/acute-lymphocytic-leukemia\/symptoms-causes\/syc-20369077\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">acute lymphocytic leukemia<\/a> (ALL), a blood and bone marrow cancer that creates immature white blood cells that can\u2019t perform their typical functions. Because of this, the disease worsens quickly.<\/p>\n<p>Most likely to occur in early childhood, ALL is more common in boys than girls, according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cancer.org\/cancer\/types\/leukemia-in-children\/about\/key-statistics.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">American Cancer Society<\/a>. Children younger than five are at highest risk for developing ALL.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mayoclinic.org\/biographies\/ferdjallah-asmaa-m-d-m-p-h\/bio-20518146\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Asmaa Ferdjallah, M.D.<\/a>, a Mayo Clinic pediatric hematologist and oncologist, treats children of all ages with ALL. Here\u2019s what she wants families to know about this disease:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>September is Childhood Cancer Awareness Month. The most common type of childhood cancer is acute lymphocytic leukemia (ALL), a blood and bone marrow cancer that creates immature white blood cells that can\u2019t perform their typical functions. Because of this, the disease worsens quickly. Most likely to occur in early childhood, ALL is more common in [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-172541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172541","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=172541"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172541\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=172541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=172541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=172541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}