Chronic myeloid leukemia

In this study we evaluated the diagnosis and treatment of Chronic myeloid leukemia, based on the assumption that the disease occurs in a minority of cases are caused by the environmental reasons such as extreme ionizing radiation, chemicals such as benzene, and even the presence of several oncogenic viruses, which have been found in animals but not yet proven to humans.

And in most cases is the alteration is obtained by a translocation between chromosomes 9 and 22 which form the Philadelphia chromosome. Also in the third case is an additional chromosome abnormalities.

It should be noted that Chronic myeloid leukemia is a clonal myeloproliferative process of pluripotent stem cells found in bone marrow. Chronic myeloid leukemia occurs in all races with a little dominance in men, and the average age of Chronic myeloid leukemia patients was 49 years old.

You could say that the greatest number of cases occurred in patients aged between 40 and 60. It should not be excluded that the Chronic myeloid leukemia can occur at any age but is rare in children.

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