Sentences with phrase «type of leukemia called»

Yasmina Ykelenstam: But the mastocytosis is linked to a type of leukemia called systemic mastocytosis, technically, a myeloperative — I can never pronounce this.

Patients with a rare type of leukemia called acute promyelocytic leukemia (APL) have better outcomes than most leukemias because they can be treated with a very...

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However, genetic mutations in a gene called mixed lineage leukemia, or MLL, lead to an aggressive subtype of B - ALL known as MLL - rearranged, which is the most common type of acute lymphoblastic leukemia in infants.

A gene therapy treatment called CAR - T immunotherapy has been approved for use in a rare type of leukemia.

The engineered cells contain an antibody - like protein known as a chimeric antigen receptor (CAR), which is designed to bind to a protein called CD19 found on the surface of B cells, including the cancerous B cells that characterize several types of leukemia.

Gerrit Jan Schuurhuis of the Free University Medical Center in Amsterdam and his colleagues recently identified the new marker, called C - type lectin - like molecule - 1 or CLL - 1, in 92 percent of people with a form of acute myeloid leukemia.

Acute myeloid leukemia (AML) is characterized by a rapidly - developing cancer in the myeloid line of blood cells, which is responsible for producing red blood cells, platelets and several types of white blood cells called granulocytes.

Leukemia that starts in lymphoid cells — which make different types of white blood cells — is called lymphocytic or lymphoblastic lLeukemia that starts in lymphoid cells — which make different types of white blood cells — is called lymphocytic or lymphoblastic leukemialeukemia.

B - cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia (B - ALL) is an aggressive cancer that originates from a type of white blood cell called the B lymphocyte.