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