Acute myeloid or myelogenous leukemia aml chronic myeloid or myelogenous leukemia cml acute lymphocytic or lymphoblastic leukemia all chronic lymphocytic leukemia cll.
Cell leukemia types.
Acute myelogenous leukemia aml.
Doctors categorize leukemia based on which type of white blood cell is involved lymphocytes or myeloid cells and whether the illness is developing very quickly acute disease or slowly over time chronic disease.
There are 4 main types of leukemia based on whether they are acute or chronic and myeloid or lymphocytic.
Despite the name hairy cell leukemia hcl is sometimes considered to be a type of lymphoma.
Lymphocytic leukemias develop from cells that give rise to t lymphocytes t cells b lymphocytes b cells or natural killer nk cells.
There are two types of b cell leukemia.
B cells are a specific type of lymph cell that affect a body s immune system.
There are three major types of blood cancer.
Acute lymphocytic leukemia all.
Chronic lymphocytic leukemia cll.
Chronic lymphocytic leukemia cll and small lymphocytic lymphoma sll are very similar because they have the same type of cancer cell.
Types of leukemia acute lymphocytic leukemia all.
It may also spread to lymph nodes and organs such as the liver and spleen.
Leukemia involving myeloid cells is called myelogenous leukemia.
The major types of leukemia are.
The lymphoma cells are small and found mainly in the bone marrow lymph nodes and spleen.
All can also occur in.
This lymphoma is discussed in detail in waldenstrom macroglobulinemia.
It occurs in children and adults.
The leukemia cells are carried in the bloodstream to other organs and tissues.
Myeloid cells are immature blood cells that d normally become.
Prolymphocytic leukemia pll and hairy cell leukemia hcl.
They re both slow growing and you treat them the same way.
Both chronic lymphocytic leukemia small lymphocytic lymphoma cll sll and chronic myeloid leukemia cml have similar signs as their acute forms but mature cell counts can be closer to normal resulting in less severe symptoms.
Acute myeloid leukemia aml.
Aml is the most.
Aml is a common type of leukemia.
