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