What Causes Chronic Myeloid Leukemia?
A risk factor is something that affects a person’s chance of getting a disease. Some risk factors, like smoking, can be controlled. Others, such as a person’s age, can’t be changed. But risk factors don’t tell us everything. Having a risk factor, or even several risk factors, does not mean that you will get the disease. And many people who get the disease may not have had any known risk factors. There are very few known risk factors for chronic myeloid leukemia (CML). For most cases, no cause is found.
