What are the three types of blood cancer?

What are the three types of blood cancer?

There are three blood cancer types, each with several subtypes. Those cancer types and subtypes are:

Blood cancer typeBlood cancer subtype examplesLeukemia: Leukemia is the most common blood cancer in the United States and the most common cancer among children and teenagers. The five-year survival rate for has quadrupled over the past 40-years.

Acute lymphoblastic leukemia.

Acute myeloid leukemia.

Chronic lymphocytic leukemia.

Chronic myelogenous leukemia.

Lymphoma: Lymphoma is cancer of your lymphatic system, which includes your bone marrow. The lymphoma survival rate has doubled over the past 40 years.

Hodgkin lymphoma.

Non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma.

Waldenstrom macroglobulinemia.

Follicular lymphoma.

B-cell lymphoma.

Cutaneous T-cell lymphoma.

Myeloma: Myeloma is cancer that starts in your bone marrow and affects your plasma cells. Multiple myeloma is the most common myeloma type. More than half of people diagnosed with myeloma are alive five years after diagnosis.

Multiple myeloma.

Plasmacytoma.

Amyloidosis.