What's the difference between leukemia and lymphoma?

What's the difference between leukemia and lymphoma?
In term of medical definitions?

- UNITool
leukemia is a cancer of blood cells and blood forming cells; lymphoma is cancer that begins in the lymphatic system.

- VOICE
leukemia is a cancer of the blood or bone marrow characterized by an abnormal proliferation of blood cells, usually white blood cells. It is part of the broad group of diseases called hematological neoplasms.


Lymphoma is a variety of cancer that originates in lymphocytes or, more rarely, of histiocytes

- kittycat
leukemia is cancer of the blood. lymphoma is cancer of the lymph nodes (glands)

- katestone522
Both are blood cancers.

Leukemia origniates from leukocytes, or white blood cells.

Lymphoma is from the lymphocytes, which are a specific subset of the white blood cells.

They are very similar.

- jewells_40
Best place to get the "full answer" :

http://www.leukemia-lymphoma.org/hm_lls

Thanks,

Jewells
28 months and still here

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