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Chronic myeloid leukaemia
Chronic myeloid leukaemia (CML) is caused by a change in a chromosome in stem cells of your bone marrow, which makes them faulty. The cells that grow from these faulty stem cells become nearly normal white blood cells - mainly granulocytes. CML develops very slowly, over months or years. It is one of the rarest types of leukaemia and it occurs mainly in adults.
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