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Silvio Berlusconi CML

I wonder how Silvio Berlusconi came to die of leukaemia. His death appears to be from a lung infection linked to CML.

P.S. I think that he may have had CMML, which is incorrectly abbreviated to CML in the press.

The BBC think you're right.

"The former Italian leader had been suffering from a rare form of blood cancer, chronic myelomonocyte leukaemia, doctors at San Raffaele revealed in April."

Thank you, Alastair, for finding a good authority. I can understand why the press incorrectly identifies chronic myelomonocyte leukaemia as CML.