Chronic Myelogenous Leukemia

chronic myelogenous leukemia (CML) is a relatively rare type of leukemia, or cancer of the blood and blood-forming tissue, in which too many white blood cells are created in the bone marrow. Chronic myelogenous leukemia (CML) is a cancer that affects your blood cells and bone marrow — the soft part inside your bones where blood cells are made. CML usually happens when you’re middle-aged or older. The symptoms tend to come on gradually. Many of them can also be signs of other illnesses. Chronic myelogenous leukemia (CML) is an uncommon type of cancer of the bone marrow — the spongy tissue inside bones where blood cells are made. CML causes an increased number of white blood cells in the blood.