Leukaemia statistics

Published 20 February 2019

Leukaemia is a type of blood cancer. It starts when white blood cells developing in the bone marrow become abnormal. 

There are different types of leukaemia. These are:

• acute lymphoblastic leukaemia (ALL)
• acute myeloid leukaemia, (AML)
• acute promyelocytic leukaemia (APL)
• chronic lymphocytic leukaemia (CLL)
• chronic myeloid leukaemia (CML).

Incidence and mortality data for leukaemia in NSW is currently available up until 2015.

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View more information on how the above incidence, mortality and survival data was calculated