http://repub.eur.nl/res/aut/29264/ List of Publications en http://repub.eur.nl/static-eur/img/logo.png http://repub.eur.nl http://repub.eur.nl/res/pub/23826/ 1994-10-05T00:00:00Z Leukemia is a malignant disease of the hemopoietic tissues. This form of cancer causes a continuous large overproduction of mal functioning immature blood cells, at the expense of the production of normal blood cells. Other blood cell cancers are the lymphomas and multiple myeloma, related to uncontrolled growth of, respectively, cells that make up the lymphatic system and of plasma cells in the bone marrow.