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Key Statistics for Chronic Myeloid Leukemia
The P站视频's estimates for chronic myeloid leukemia (CML) in the United States for 2024 are:
- About 9,280 new cases will be diagnosed with CML (5,330 in men and 3,950 in women).
- About 1,280 people will die of CML (750 men and 530 women).
About 15% of all new cases of leukemia are chronic myeloid leukemia. About 1 person in 526 will get CML in their lifetime in the United States.
The average age at diagnosis of CML is around 64 years. Almost half of cases are diagnosed in people 65 and older. This type of leukemia mainly affects adults, and is rarely seen in children.
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SEER Lifetime Risk (Percent) of Being Diagnosed with Cancer by Site and Race/Ethnicity: Both Sexes, 18 SEER Areas, 2012-2014 (Table 1.15) National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, MD. Accessed at https://seer.cancer.gov/csr/1975_2014/results_merged/topic_lifetime_risk.pdf on January 5, 2018.
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