Acute leukemia

Template:Infobox medical condition Acute leukemia or acute leukaemia is a family of serious medical conditions relating to an original diagnosis of leukemia. In most cases, these can be classified according to the lineage, myeloid or lymphoid, of the malignant cells that grow uncontrolled, but some are mixed and for those such an assignment is not possible.<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref>

Forms of acute leukemia include:

• Acute myeloid leukemia (AML),<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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• Acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL)<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

|CitationClass=web }}</ref> including T-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia.<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref> Types of T-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia include adult T-cell leukemia/lymphoma<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref><ref>Template:Cite journal</ref><ref>Template:Cite journal</ref> and (precursor) T-lymphoblastic leukemia/lymphoma.

• Blast crisis of chronic myelogenous leukemia.

Medical statistics

Based on data from United States Cancer Statistics (USCS) Public Use Database for 2001–2017, the 2021 estimate for new cases of AML and ALL are following:<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

• Total estimated cases for AML: 20,240
• Total estimated cases for ALL: 5,690

Based on these estimates, AML is about 78% of the total cases.

Images

• T-lymphoblastic cells of acute leukemia in the bone marrow
  T-lymphoblastic cells of acute leukemia in the bone marrow
• Acute erythroid leukemia, a rare form of acute myeloid leukemia
  Acute erythroid leukemia, a rare form of acute myeloid leukemia
• Acute myeloid leukemia
  Acute myeloid leukemia
• Chronic myelogenous leukemia
  Chronic myelogenous leukemia
• Peripheral blood stain of chronic myelogenous leukemia in accelerated phase (blast crisis)
  Peripheral blood stain of chronic myelogenous leukemia in accelerated phase (blast crisis)