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 ...

Glitazones, a class of drug commonly used to treat diabetes, may help eradicate residual cancer cells in chronic myelogenous leukemia (CML), according to a study published online September 2 in Nature ...

Chronic myelogenous leukemia (CML) is a cancer that affects your blood cells and bone marrow -- the soft part inside your bones where blood cells are made. You may also hear your doctor call it ...

Chronic myeloid leukemia (CML) is also known as chronic myelogenous leukemia. In this type of cancer, the bone marrow produces too many white blood cells. If the disease isn’t effectively treated, it ...

Data from the Survey of Unmet Needs in Chronic Myeloid Leukemia (CML SUN) trial show that quality of life (QOL) and shared decision-making are priorities for patients, said Fabian Lang, MD, of Goethe ...

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 ...

Patient adherence to tyrosine kinase inhibitors (TKIs) ranges widely—from 19% to 100%—according to several studies. Most participants in the current study believed in the efficacy of their medication, ...

Two posters presented at the European Hematology Association 2021 Virtual Congress evaluated tyrosine kinase inhibitor (TKI) selection in the front line and compared first-generation to ...

The progression of chronic myelogenous leukemia (CML) to blast crisis is supported by self-renewing leukemic stem cells. In normal mouse hematopoietic stem cells, the process of self-renewal involves ...

Leukaemia is cancer of the white blood cells. There are essentially two broad categories of leukemia – acute and chronic. Chronic leukaemia means the condition progresses slowly over years as opposed ...