Category: Rx Cancer (A – Z)

Adenomatous polyposis is a health problem where many small growths, called adenomatous polyps, grow in the inner lining of the large intestine (colon) and...

Chronic neutrophilic leukemia is a very rare blood cancer. It starts from the bone marrow, where blood cells are made. In this disease, the...

Chronic myelomonocytic leukemia, often called CMML, is a rare blood cancer that starts in the bone marrow, the soft center of the bones where...

Chronic myelomonocytic leukemia (CMML) is a rare type of blood cancer. It starts in the bone marrow, which is the soft inner part of...

Leukemia Philadelphia chromosome–positive (often written “Ph-positive” or “Ph+”) means a blood cancer where the leukemia cells carry a special broken chromosome called the Philadelphia...

Hematopoietic chronic myelocytic leukemia is another way to describe chronic myeloid (myelogenous) leukemia, often shortened to CML. “Hematopoietic” means it starts in the blood-forming...

Familial chronic myelocytic leukemia (familial CML) is a blood cancer that starts in the bone marrow, the soft center of the bones where blood...

Chronic myeloid leukemia (CML), also called chronic myelogenous leukemia, is a blood cancer that starts in the bone marrow stem cells. A special change...

Chronic myelogenous leukemia (CML) is a type of blood cancer that starts in the bone marrow, where blood cells are made. In CML, the...

Chronic granulocytic leukemia (CGL) is an older name for chronic myeloid leukemia (CML), a blood cancer that starts from the bone marrow cells that...

BCR-ABL positive chronic myelogenous leukemia (CML) is a blood cancer that starts in the bone marrow, where new blood cells are made. In CML,...

Chronic myelogenous leukemia, BCR-ABL1 positive (often called chronic myeloid leukemia or CML) is a blood cancer where the bone marrow makes too many white...

Bridges–Good syndrome is another name for a rare illness called chronic granulomatous disease (CGD). In this disease, some white blood cells (called phagocytes) cannot...

Chronic graft-versus-host disease (chronic GVHD or cGVHD) is a long-lasting problem that can happen after an allogeneic stem cell or bone marrow transplant. In...

CBL-mutated juvenile myelomonocytic leukemia is a rare blood cancer that happens in babies and young children when the CBL gene is damaged (mutated) in...

NF1-associated juvenile myelomonocytic leukemia (NF1-JMML) is a rare blood cancer that happens in young children who already have neurofibromatosis type 1 (NF1). In this...

PTPN11-mutated juvenile myelomonocytic leukemia (JMML) is a rare blood cancer of early childhood in which young bone-marrow cells that normally form white blood cells...

Juvenile myelomonocytic leukemia (JMML) is a rare blood cancer that happens almost only in babies and very young children, usually under 4 years old....

Acute leukemia is a fast-growing blood cancer. It starts in the bone marrow, which is the soft part inside your bones where new blood...

Chromophobe renal cell adenocarcinoma (usually called chromophobe renal cell carcinoma, chRCC) is a rare type of kidney cancer. It starts in special cells called...