Types of Leukemia

There are four different types of leukemia, two acute and two chronic.

The acute types develop rapidly and they are:

* Acute Lymphocytic Leukemia (ALL)
* Acute Myelocytic Leukemia (AML)
The chronic types develop gradually over time and they are:

* Chronic Lymphoblastic Leukemia (CLL)
* Chronic Myelogenous Leukemia (CML)

Although all leukemia types begin the same way, by a cell in the bone marrow, patients are affected and treated differently for each type.

Our son, Kaden, was diagnosed with ALL and it progressed rather rapidly. He began to develop a few symptoms that I noticed about two weeks before he was diagnosed. At that time I did not think it was anything serious (bruises, which are not uncommon for a 3 year old little boy who is very active). Then he started to get symptoms that threw up a red flag. From that point until diagnosis was only 6 days. Four days before his diagnosis, his oncologist believed he just had a viral infection. So within those four days the disease really progressed.

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