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