T here are many diseases that involve different types of white blood cells (also known as leukocytes), and the different functions of the cells. The term leukemia refers to a great number of these diseases and generally describes cancerous conditions where there are too many leukocytes in the blood.
There are several types of leukemia. In all of them, one cell line (sometimes lymphocytes, sometimes monocytes, sometimes one of the other cell lines) begins uncontrolled growth (caption above: normal bone marrow - Bone marrow smear with normal granulocytes and erythroblasts evident).
Lymphoid Leukemia
Myeloid Leukemia
Chronic Myeloid Leukemia
1.Acute lymphoid leukemia (ALL), there is a marked proliferation of small lymphoblasts.
2.Acute myeloid leukemia (AML), there is a marked proliferation of large myeloblasts.
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Chronic myeloid leukemia (CML), there is a marked proliferation of granulocytes at various stages of maturation.