These leukemic cells are not able to fight infection very well.

Cutaneous infiltration of leukemic cells may also have this appearance.

Even after complete remission is achieved, leukemic cells likely remain in numbers too small to be detected with current diagnostic techniques.

The leukemic cells contained acquired mutations in several genes that had not previously been associated with the disease.

Despite their vast numbers, these leukemic cells are unable to fight infection the way normal white blood cells do.

When a bone marrow sample is drawn, leukemic cells can be viewed under a microscope.

Symptoms do not occur until the disease is advanced, and there are 1 kg or 1,000,000,000,000 leukemic cells in the body.

Genetic tests can confirm the leukemic cells at relapse are descendants of those present when the disease first appeared.

A single remaining leukemic cell can be fatal, as malignant cells divide without control.

The abnormal lymphocytes may also be called leukemic cells.