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Chronic Myelogenous Leukemia Definition
Common names:
  • Chronic Myelogenous Leukemia
  • CML
  • Leukemia Chronic Myelogenous
  • Myelogenous Leukemia Chronic
A person with leukemia has cancer of the white blood cells. The white blood cells multiply out of control in the bone marrow, resulting in abnormally high numbers of white blood cells in the bloodstream. Images

Chronic myelogenous leukemia is a slow growing cancer of a particular type of white blood cell, called a granulocyte.

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Last Updated: Sep 14, 2008  References
Authors: Stephen J. Schueler, MD; John H. Beckett, MD; D. Scott Gettings, MD
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