As blood cells develop, different families branch off from blood-forming stem cells.
The myeloid cell line represents one such family.
AML is also known as acute myeloid leukemia.
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Blood-forming stem cellsresiding mostly in the bone marrow in adultsmultiply and produce different populations or lineages of cells.
These stem cells divide, both to make replacements for themselves and to form progenitor cells.
This fork in the road between lymphoid and myeloid lineages is a major one.
Each progenitor can give rise to its own distinct families of blood cells.
These immature cells dont work like normal, mature white blood cells.
Sometimes CML patients may also have low numbers of red blood cells or blood platelets.
On their own, myeloid cells do not indicate cancer.
However, myeloid cells can develop cancer known as myeloid malignancies.
For example, acute myeloid leukemia (AML) is a blood and bone marrow cancer.
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