Chronic myelomonocytic leukemia

Chronic Myelomonocytic Leukemia
Chronic myelomonocytic leukemia is a disease in which too many myelocytes and monocytes (immature white blood cells) are made in the bone marrow.

chronic myelomonocytic leukemia CMML. A slowly progressing type of myelodysplastic/myeloproliferative disease in which too many myelomonocytes (a type of white blood cell) are in the bone marrow, crowding out other normal blood cells, ...

clinical trials from NCI's PDQ Cancer Clinical Trials Registry that are now accepting patients with chronic myelomonocytic leukemia. Emanuel PD: Juvenile myelomonocytic leukemia and chronic myelomonocytic leukemia.

acute myelogenous leukemia, acute nonlymphocytic leukemia, ALL, AML, anemia, ataxia telangiectasia, benzene, Bloom's syndrome, bone marrow, chemotherapy, chronic lymphocytic leukemia, chronic myelogenous leukemia, chronic myelomonocytic leukemia, CLL, ...

Ph chromosome-negative CML and chronic myelomonocytic leukemia have a worse prognosis than Ph chromosome-positive CML. Their clinical behaviors resemble a myelodysplastic syndrome (see Leukemias: Myelodysplastic Syndrome).
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Other, rarer types of leukemia include hairy cell leukemia and chronic myelomonocytic leukemia.
Causes unclear
Doctors don't understand the exact cause of leukemia. It seems to develop from a combination of genetic and environmental factors.

MD-MP (Juvenile myelomonocytic leukemia, Chronic myelomonocytic leukemia)
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If you (or a loved one) are worried about developing chronic myelomonocytic leukemia, have just been diagnosed, are going through treatment, or are trying to stay well after treatment, this Detailed Guide can help you find the answers you need.

uncontrolled anemia or uncontrolled anemia with evidence of red blood cell precursors in the blood
uncontrolled anemia with deformed blood cell precursor cells (stem cells)
chronic myelomonocytic leukemia (CMMoL)
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An abnormal type of white blood cell that is found in chronic myelomonocytic leukemia. These cells are similar to both monocytes and myelocytes (immature cells that develop into different types of immune system cells).

CML: Acute myeloid leukemia
CML: Chronic myelomonocytic leukemia
CML: Chronic neutrophilic leukemia
CML: Leukemoid reaction
CML: Myelodysplastic syndrome
CML: Myeloproliferative disease
CML: Polycythemia vera (PV) ...

(For information on anemia, refer to the PDQ summary on Fatigue.) This classification of AML comprises approximately 15% to 25% of cases of AML, and some patients have a previous history of chronic myelomonocytic leukemia (CMML).

Chronic myelomonocytic leukemia ... fever
Chronic Myeloproliferative Disease, Unclassified ... fever, low grade fever
Chronic Myeloproliferative Disorders ... fever
Chronic necrotizing vasculitis ... fever
Chronic pyelonephritis ... fever ...

See also: Leukemia, Anemia, Cancer, Symptom, Fibrosis