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You Are Treating a 47-Year-Old Woman Who Has Come to You

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You are treating a 47-year-old woman who has come to you with complaints of fatigue, chronic headaches, and radiating pain and fullness on her left side. A routine blood test indicates the presence of increased immature white cells (blasts) , reduced platelets, and reduced leukocytes. You order a cytogenetic analysis of the blasts and the results indicate the presence of a chromosomal abnormality consistent with a t(9:22) translocation. This patient is most likely suffering from which of the following?


A) acute lymphocytic leukemia, ALL
B) acute myelogenous leukemia, AML
C) chronic myelogenous leukemia, CML
D) Hodgkin lymphoma
E) Non-Hodgkin lymphoma, NHL

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