The health care professional bases her responses to Katrina’s questions about leukemia on the fact that leukemia is a/an:
a. hereditary form of hemolytic anemia in which the alpha or beta hemoglobin chains are defective and the production of hemoglobin is deficient, creating hypochromic microcytic RBCs
b. malignant plasma cell neoplasm causing an increase in the number of both mature and immature plasma cells, which often entirely replace the bone marrow and destroy the skeletal structure.
c. excessive uncontrolled increase of immature WBCs in the blood, eventually leading to infection, anemia, anddecreasing numbers of platelets.
d. abnormal increase in the number of RBCs, granulocytes, and thrombocytes, leading to an increase in the volume and viscosity of the blood.
Ans: c. excessive uncontrolled increase of immature WBCs in the blood, eventually leading to infection, anemia, anddecreasing numbers of platelets.
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