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Differentiating features of leukaemia

evan March 4, 2024
  • Acute lymphoblastic leukaemia is the most common leukaemia in children and associated with Down syndrome
  • Chronic lymphoblastic leukaemia is associated with warm haemolytic anaemia, Richter's transformation and smudge cells
  • Chronic myeloid leukaemia has 3 phases, including a long chronic phase and associated with the Philadelphia chromosome 
  • Acute myeloid leukaemia may result in a transformation from a myeloproliferative disorder and associated with Auer rods

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evan

Myeloproliferative disorders - such as CML, still a cancer but not as bad

March 18, 2024, 3:43 p.m.