CLL is a slowly progressing type of leukemia that affects stem cells, which eventually develop into white blood cells called lymphocytes. It’s the most common type of leukemia in adults.

is a blood cancer that originates in the white blood cells (lymphocytes) that are part of the body’s immune system, according to the American Cancer Society (ACS). Every year, more than 80,000 ...

Rising blood levels of an inflammatory marker, neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ratio, linked to poorer outcomes with chronic kidney ...

An expert from the CURE® advisory board explains the likely treatability of Dave Coulier’s non-Hodgkin lymphoma.

If you receive a diagnosis of CLL, your bone marrow produces too many lymphocytes, which are a type of white blood cell. These lymphocytes don’t function properly. They cause further problems by ...

People diagnosed with blood cancer have a team of doctors ... Doctors divide non-Hodgkin's lymphoma into types based on the kind of lymphocyte each one starts in. When you’re diagnosed with ...

Donor lymphocyte infusion (DLI): when lymphocytes, a type of white blood cell, from a donor are given to patients who previously underwent a stem cell transplant from the same donor. Cytogenetic: ...

Medically reviewed by Doru Paul, MD Leukemia is a cancer that changes blood cells. It usually develops in the bone marrow, the inner part of the bone that makes immature cells that eventually develop ...