“New Cases

• Approximately every 3 minutes one person in the United States (US) is diagnosed with a blood cancer.
• An estimated combined total of 176,200 people in the US are expected to be diagnosed with leukemia, lymphoma or myeloma in 2019.
• New cases of leukemia, lymphoma and myeloma are expected to account for 10 percent of the estimated 1,762,450 new cancer cases diagnosed in the US in 2019.”

Leukemia and Lymphoma Society