Various symptoms indicate chronic myelogenous leukemia (CML) has progressed from one phase to another. These include an increase in leukemia cells, a change in a person’s platelet count, and worsening ...

Medications for CML directly destroy cancer cells or help the body’s immune system attack cancer cells to prevent them from growing. Medications may not cure CML, so people may need to continue taking ...

Doctors use molecular responses to monitor the effectiveness of CML treatment. A major molecular response is when the amount of the abnormal BCR–ABL gene in your blood and bone marrow is lowered to ...

Chronic myeloid leukemia (CML), also known as chronic myelogenous leukemia, is a type of cancer that starts in the blood-forming cells of the bone marrow and invades the blood. About 15% of leukemias ...

Chronic myelomonocytic leukemia (CMML) and chronic myeloid leukemia (CML) are two types of cancers that affect the blood and bone marrow. In both types, certain blood cells multiply out of control.