chronic granulocytic leukemia

They told her that she was pregnant and that she had chronic granulocytic leukemia.

It is sometimes referred to as chronic myeloid leukemia or chronic granulocytic leukemia.

Sokal JE, Cox EB, Baccarani M, et al.: Prognostic discrimination in "good-risk" chronic granulocytic leukemia.

In 1960, Peter Nowell and David HungerfordNowell PC, Hungerford DA. 'A minute chromosome in human chronic granulocytic leukemia'.

Chronic myelogenous leukemia (also called CML or chronic granulocytic leukemia) is a slowly progressing blood and bone marrow disease that usually occurs during or after middle age, and rarely occurs in children.

In 1959, while working as a research fellow at the cancer center with Dr. Peter C. Nowell of the University of Pennsylvania, Mr. Hungerford found that a type of cancer of the blood called chronic granulocytic leukemia was linked to a shortened arm of one chromosome.