What is chronic leukemia

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Leukemia is a serious disease, which is also a kind of blood cancer. We should pay attention to it after getting sick. Then, what is chronic leukemia? Let's talk about it.

What is chronic leukemia

First, chronic leukemia is divided into chronic myeloid leukemia and chronic lymphocytic leukemia. Chronic myelogenous leukemia (CML) is a kind of leukemia with relatively slow onset and development.

Secondly, chronic leukemia is a malignant proliferative disease originated from bone marrow pluripotent hematopoietic stem cells, characterized by expansion of myeloid progenitor cell pool and excessive growth of myeloid cell lines and progenitor cells. More than 90% of the cases have CML marker chromosome. The molecular biological basis of Ph1 chromosome is BER / abl gene rearrangement.

Incidence rate have a fever incidence rate. At the end of the day, chronic leukemia mainly occurs when there is no strength, wasting, fever, splenomegaly and white blood cells increasing. The incidence of chronic leukemia is different. In our survey, the annual incidence rate is 036/10 million. In China, CML accounts for 20% of all kinds of leukemia, accounting for 95% of chronic leukemia. The age distribution of onset is wide, but the incidence rate increases with age. The incidence rate of male is higher than that of female.

matters needing attention

Leukemia is a serious disease, such a disease to achieve early detection, early treatment, especially in peacetime to pay attention to prevention, mainly away from radiation, but also to prevent virus infection.