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