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Term:
Parent Terms Term With Siblings Child Terms
Leukemia +     
Acute leukemia +   
Chronic leukemia +   
A slowly progressing leukemia characterized by a clonal (malignant) proliferation of maturing and mature myeloid cells or mature lymphocytes. When the clonal cellular population is composed of myeloid cells, the process is called chronic myelogenous leukemia. When the clonal cellular population is composed of lymphocytes, it is classified as chronic lymphocytic leukemia, hairy cell leukemia, or T-cell large granular lymphocyte leukemia.
Lymphoid leukemia +   
Myeloid leukemia +   
Myeloproliferative disorder +   

Synonyms
Exact Synonyms: Chronic leukaemia
Broad Synonyms: Chronic blood cancer
Xrefs: SNOMEDCT_US:128933000 ;   SNOMEDCT_US:92812005 ;   UMLS:C1279296 ;   UMLS:C4280478
Definition Sources: NCIT:C3483

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