- An orange ribbon stands for leukemia.
- A person in US is diagnosed with blood cancer every 4 minutes.
- Leukemia is the 10th most common cancer in the world.
- Around 45% of people who has leukemia survives.
- Leukemia is more common in men than women.
- Someone dies from leukemia every 10 minutes.
- Leukemia is the most common type of cancer for children between ages 0-14, accounting up to 34%.
- Marie Curie, who won the Nobel Prize for chemistry in 1911, died of leukemia due to high exposure to radiation.
- It is believed that the Greeks were the first to recognize this disease in the 5th century B.C.E.
- The word leukemia comes from the Greek word leukos and heima, which means white blood.
Created by: Minzee Kim