what are some rare blood diseases?
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The most common blood cancers include leukemias, lymphomas, and multiple myeloma. There are less common blood disorders too. These include various myeloproliferative neoplasms, histiocytosis, and paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinuria.
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What is rare? Your blood type is considered rare if it is missing a common antigen or combination of antigens that most people have. Someone with a rare blood type lacks antigens that 99% of people are positive for. Those with an extremely rare blood type lack antigens that 99.9% of people are positive for.
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Sickle cell disease is a group of inherited red blood cell disorders. People who have sickle cell disease have an abnormal protein in their red blood cells. In the United States, most people who have sickle cell disease are of African ancestry, but the condition is also common in people with a Hispanic background.
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114,800 (2015) Sickle cell disease (SCD) is a group of blood disorders typically inherited from a person's parents. The most common type is known as sickle cell anaemia (SCA). It results in an abnormality in the oxygen-carrying protein haemoglobin found in red blood cells.
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Medical conditions that can cause an increase in red blood cells include: Heart failure, causing low blood oxygen levels. Congenital heart disease (born with it) Polycythemia vera (a blood disorder in which the bone marrow produces too many red blood cells)
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Hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis (HLH) is a rare disease that usually occurs in infants and young children. It may also occur in adults. Children usually inherit the disease. In adults, many different conditions, including infections and cancer, can cause HLH.
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However, in the United States, AB-negative is considered to be the rarest blood type, and O-positive the most common. The Stanford School of Medicine Blood Center ranks blood types in the United States from rarest to most common as follows: AB-negative (.6 percent) B-negative (1.5 percent)
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['Infectious diseases, such as AIDS, viral hepatitis, tuberculosis, and typhoid fever.', 'Autoimmune disorders, such as lupus. ... ', 'Steroid therapy.', "Blood cancer and other blood diseases, such as Hodgkin's disease and aplastic anemia.", 'Radiation and chemotherapy (treatments for cancer).']
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Acquired aplastic anemia is a rare, serious blood disorder, due to failure of the bone marrow failure to produce blood cells.
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['Sickle Cell disease.', 'Congenital spherocytosis.', 'Thalassaemia.', 'HIV seropositivity / AIDS.', 'Chronic hepatitis B or hepatitis C.', 'Past history of leukaemia or malignant lymphoma. Must be disease and treatment free for 5 years.']
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Sickle cell anemia is an inherited disease that affects red blood cells with an abnormal version of hemoglobin, the protein that carries oxygen throughout the body. The altered hemoglobin is known as hemoglobin S, or sickle hemoglobin, because it causes normally oval-shaped red blood cells to assume a sickle shape.
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['AL Amyloidosis. A rare disease caused when an abnormal protein, amyloid, enters tissues or organs.', 'Chronic B-cell Leukemias. A type of cancer which affects white blood cells.', 'Chloracne (or similar acneform disease) ... ', 'Diabetes Mellitus Type 2. ... ', "Hodgkin's Disease. ... ", 'Ischemic Heart Disease. ... ', 'Multiple Myeloma. ... ', "Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma."]
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Paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinuria (PNH) is a rare acquired, life-threatening disease of the blood. The disease is characterized by destruction of red blood cells (hemolytic anemia), blood clots (thrombosis), and impaired bone marrow function (not making enough of the three blood components).
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Hemophilia is a rare disorder in which your blood doesn't clot normally because it lacks sufficient blood-clotting proteins (clotting factors).
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About 1 in 5 rare cancers affect the blood and lymphatic system. These include leukaemia and some types of lymphoma. We have more information about different types of rare cancers.
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Aplastic anemia. This rare, life-threatening anemia occurs when your body doesn't produce enough red blood cells. Causes of aplastic anemia include infections, certain medicines, autoimmune diseases and exposure to toxic chemicals.