According to recent studies one in three children with acute lymphoblastic leukaemia were overweight or obese during their diagnosis. This tends to take a toll on the health of the children. Their quality of life will deteriorate and they will experience immense pain. Reportedly the research in the University of California Los Angeles in the US which administered the chemotherapy drug vincristine to obese and non-obese mice with leukaemia revealed these shocking findings. Leukaemia can be termed as the cancer of the blood or bone marrow. You may suffer from leukaemia if there is a problem with the production of