A Unique Case of Chronic Myeloid Leukemia Occurring in an Adolescent Male

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Dawood Findakly Mohammed Al-Charakh Surabhi Amar

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Dawood Findakly
Creighton University School of Medicine, Omaha, Nebraska, USA

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Background: Patients with chronic myeloid leukemia (CML) usually present in elderly age and rarely in the adolescents and young adults (AYA) population. There is a limited understanding of disease management and survival outcomes in this group of patients. Case Presentation: An 18-year-old man presents to our hospital for abdominal pain and weight loss. Examination pertinent for splenomegaly and labs significant for profoundly elevated white cells count. FISH was positive for BCR/ABL1 fusion gene, and thus, he was diagnosed with CML and treated with TKI with clinical improvement. Conclusion: Tailoring CML novel therapeutic strategies in the AYA population to different disease characteristics will better advance our understanding of this disease in this patient population.

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Received: Mon 02, Mar 2020
Accepted: Fri 27, Mar 2020
Published: Tue 31, Mar 2020

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© 2023 Dawood Findakly. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Hosting by Science Repository.
DOI: 10.31487/j.COR.2020.03.13