We just learned about the Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia.
Another type of leukemia is Chronic Myeloid Leukemia.
We've learned about ALL, AML, and CLL.
The fourth type of leukemia is CML, meaning it is chronic and myelogenous.
Remember that the chronic means that it is slow moving, and the myelogenous means that the kind of white blood calls that are having problems are neutrophils, monocytes, eosinophils, and basophils.
When the body makes these myeloid cells, they don't go through the normal life cycle and go away, and the body ends up having too many of those cells.
(from: wikipedia - chronic myelogenous leukemia)
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