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chronic leukemia

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chronic leukemia [′krän·ik lü′kēm·e·ə]
(medicine)
A leukemia in which the life expectancy is prolonged; leukemias are classified as to acute or chronic, and according to the predominant cell type; the life expectancy is highly variable depending on the latter.


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At the ceremony Kazlauskas also got to meet face-to-face with the recipient of his bone marrow, Glenn Hale, a 66-year-old Arizona retiree who was diagnosed with chronic leukemia in 1991.
The mature white blood cells make infection risk much lower, thus individuals can frequently live multiple years with a chronic leukemia.
These numbers are divided between acute and chronic leukemia.
 
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