Refractory anemia with excess of blasts (RAEB) is a type of
myelodysplastic syndrome
A myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS) is one of a group of cancers in which blood cells in the bone marrow do not mature, and as a result, do not develop into healthy blood cells. Early on, no symptoms typically are seen. Later, symptoms may includ ...
with a
marrow blast percentage of 5% to 19%.
In
MeSH
Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) is a comprehensive controlled vocabulary for the purpose of indexing journal articles and books in the life sciences. It serves as a thesaurus of index terms that facilitates searching. Created and updated by th ...
, "Smoldering leukemia" is classified under RAEB.
References
External links
Smoldering leukemiaentry in the public domain NCI Dictionary of Cancer Terms
Myeloid neoplasia
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