treatments
In the past chemotherapy has been used to treat CML, but now it is seen that this targeted therapy is more effective?
TKIs
This gender is more commonly seen diagnosed with CML.
females
CML starts in these specific cells located in the spongey bone.
myeloid
When platelet counts drop its thrombocytopenia, when red blood cell counts drop its anemia. What is it called when white blood cell counts drop?
leukopenia
This term refers to the way CML grows slowly over time.
chronic
CML treatments are based on how many __________ white blood cells are present and how ____________ the disease is behaving.
immature
aggressively
While CML may be seen at all ages, ________ is the average age of diagnosis.
66
CML starts in the bone marrow but can travel. What two places does it most commonly go?
blood then lymph
CML interferes with normal blood cell counts, which leads the patients to become immunosuppressed. This side effect leaves patients at a high risk of _________?
infection
Rather than the traditional TNM staging system, the progression of CML is discussed in terms of?
phasing
There are occasions in which immunotherapy is seen as the best course of treatment for CML. One of these situations is?
pregnancy
The philadelphia chromosome is seen as the primary cause of CML. What type of chromosomal damage occurs to create this gene?
tanslocation
These three phases of CML can be remembered by the acronym CAB.
Chronic, Accelerated, Blast
Three of the most common symptoms associated with anemia are?
fatigue, weakness, dyspnea
FISH