Waldenstrom’s macroglobulinemia is a type of cancer that starts in the white blood cells of people who have this syndrome. This condition occurs when too many aberrant white blood cells are produced by your bone marrow, crowding away good blood cells.
Doctors believe that the disease starts with a single aberrant white blood cell that acquires genetic code flaws (mutations). The error tells the cell to keep replicating at a high rate.
Because cancer cells do not mature and subsequently die like normal cells, they accumulate and eventually outnumber healthy cell creation. Furthermore, Waldenstrom’s macroglobulinemia cells squeeze out healthy blood cells in the bone marrow.