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What causes blood cancers?
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Mutations: Damage to blood stem cells cause mutations which lead to development of blood cancers. Known causes of damage are radiation, chemicals (e.g. Benzene) or viruses (htlv, ebv, etc). In many cases the causes are unknown.
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