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Leukemia: Chronic Myelogenous (CML)

Another name for this type of leukemia is chronic myeloid leukemia.

Definition

Chronic myelogenous leukemia (CML) is a disease in which the bone marrow makes too many white blood cells.

Chronic myelogenous leukemia (also called chronic granulocytic leukemia) is a slowly progressing blood and bone marrow disease that usually occurs during or after middle age, and rarely occurs in children. Learn more on the University of Michigan Healthwise Knowledgebase's Chronic myelogenous leukemia (CML) web page.

Getting Diagnosed / Treatment

CML is treated at the U-M Cancer Center in the Adult Hematology Clinic.

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