Table 1.
Classification of Incident Hematologic Malignancies
| Disease | Patients |
|
|---|---|---|
| No. | % | |
| Myeloid neoplasms | 136 | 23.6 |
| MDS | 54 | 9.4 |
| AML | 36 | 6.2 |
| Myeloproliferative neoplasms* | 46 | 8.0 |
| Mature B-cell neoplasms | 389 | 67.4 |
| CLL/SLL | 88 | 15.3 |
| Plasma cell disorders | 66 | 11.4 |
| Other mature B-cell neoplasm entities | 235 | 40.7 |
| Hodgkin's lymphoma | 22 | 3.8 |
| Mature natural killer/T-cell neoplasms | 17 | 3.0 |
| Others† | 13 | 2.3 |
| Total | 577 | 100 |
Abbreviations: AML, acute myeloid leukemia; CLL/SLL, chronic lymphocytic leukemia/small lymphocytic lymphoma; MDS, myelodysplastic syndrome.
*
Includes the diagnostic category of myelodysplastic/myeloproliferative neoplasms.
†
Includes cases of malignant lymphoma, not otherwise specified (NOS); leukemia, NOS; acute biphenotypic leukemia; and precursor B-cell lymphoblastic leukemia.