{"id":175,"date":"2020-04-13T14:51:17","date_gmt":"2020-04-13T06:51:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.perthhaematology.com.au\/?page_id=175"},"modified":"2020-05-04T09:39:54","modified_gmt":"2020-05-04T01:39:54","slug":"leukaemia","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.perthhaematology.com.au\/index.php\/blood-disorders\/leukaemia\/","title":{"rendered":"Leukaemia"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Leukaemia is a cancer of the white blood cells of the blood and marrow. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There are 2 main forms, which behave very differently:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong><span class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-cyan-blue-color\">Acute Leukaemia<\/span><\/strong><ul><li>Onset is abrupt and rapidly develops with accumulation of immature precursor blast cells. Needs urgent attention.<\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><span class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-cyan-blue-color\"><strong>Chronic Leukaemia<\/strong><\/span><ul><li>Often indolent, slow growing and present for a long time before diagnosed. May not require treatment in the initial stages. Causes problems as the white ell count rises, due to mature cells accumulating, and tumour burden rises over time. <\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n<input type=\"button\" value=\"Back\" class=\"alg_back_button_input \" style=\"\" onclick=\"window.history.back()\" \/>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\"><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leukaemia is a cancer of the white blood cells of the blood and marrow. There are 2 main forms, which <\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more-text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.perthhaematology.com.au\/index.php\/blood-disorders\/leukaemia\/\" class=\"read-more\">continue reading<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":169,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-175","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.perthhaematology.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/175","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.perthhaematology.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.perthhaematology.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.perthhaematology.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.perthhaematology.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=175"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.perthhaematology.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/175\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":421,"href":"https:\/\/www.perthhaematology.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/175\/revisions\/421"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.perthhaematology.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.perthhaematology.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}