Symptoms

CML (Chronic Myelogenous Leukemia) is usually discovered during a physical exam or routine blood test and close to 50% of patients found to be in the chronic phase have no symptoms at all (asymptomatic).

Those that do have “symptoms” may have one or more of the following:

• Fatigue that lingers and/or doesn’t go away
• Shortness of breath
• Weight loss
• Unexplained bruising
  
• Night sweats
• Pale complexion due to anemia
• Tightness in the abdomen, abdominal pain or mass
• Enlarged spleen (50% of cases) or liver (15% of cases)