Chronic myelogenous leukemia
Chronic myelogenous leukemia: Introduction
Chronic myelogenous leukemia: A slow-growing cancer of the white blood cells where the bone marrow makes too many white blood cells which eventually invade various parts of the body.
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causes, and treatments of Chronic myelogenous leukemia is available below.
Symptoms of Chronic myelogenous leukemia
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Treatments for Chronic myelogenous leukemia
- Tyrosinase kinase inhibitors - Imatinib, Dasatinib, and Nilotinib. Imatinib is the first line therapy for many people, and those unsuitable for stem cell transplantation
- Stem Cell transplantation- peripheral or bone marrow
- Chemotherapy - used when tyrosine kinase inhibitors stop working or with stem cell transplantation
- Interferon - used when other drugs don't work, or when they can't be used, such as in pregnancy
- Radiotherapy - rarely used to shrink splenomegaly or treat enlarged nodes
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Wrongly Diagnosed with Chronic myelogenous leukemia?
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Chronic myelogenous leukemia: Complications
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Causes of Chronic myelogenous leukemia
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Definitions of Chronic myelogenous leukemia:
Chronic myelogenous leukemia is listed as a "rare disease" by the Office of
Rare Diseases (ORD) of the National Institutes of Health
(NIH). This means that Chronic myelogenous leukemia, or a subtype of Chronic myelogenous leukemia,
affects less than 200,000 people in the US population.
Source - National Institutes of Health (NIH)
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