What is AML? Acute myeloid leukemia (AML) is the most common type of acute leukemia in adults. In AML, the bone marrow makes abnormal red blood cells, platelets, or myeloblasts (a type of immature white blood cell). These abnormal cells are called “blasts” and are the leukemia cells...
Acute myeloid leukemia (AML) is also called acute myelogenous leukemia. It is a fast-growing cancer of the bone marrow and blood cells. Cells that should become white blood cells (WBCs) do not fully grow. These cells are called myeloblasts and monoblasts. They do not fight infection like...
Acute myeloid leukemia (AML) is fast-growing cancer that starts inside bone marrow, the soft tissue inside bones that helps form blood cells. The cancer grows from cells that would normally turn into white blood cells that help fight infection. With AML, the bone marrow may also make abnormal...
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Types of leukemia Leukemia is categorized as acute or chronic based on the rate of proliferation of the leukemic cells. There are four major types of leukemia, two each for the predominant cell lineages—chronic/acute myeloid leukemia (CML and AML) and chronic/acute lymphocytic leukemia (CLL, ...
The When Harry Met Sally screenwriter recently succumbed to this enigmatic form of cancer, but there are new treatments in the pipeline
What Is a Dangerous White Blood Cell Count? A normalwhite blood cell countis generally about 4,500 to 11,000/μL. White blood cell counts that are too high or too low may be dangerous, depending on the cause. A high white blood cell count is called leukocytosis, which is generally diag...
I just recently learned of my cousin being diagnosed with lymphocytic leukemia, he's only in his early 20's. I know little about the disease, and only that it's cancer of the blood. I don't know how successful treatment is today, how long he will have to be in treatment; from wha...
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Childhood leukemia is the most common type of cancer that affects children. Leukemia is a cancer of white blood cells that starts in bone marrow (the soft center part of bones), which produces blood cells. Once a leukemic cell develops, it multiplies quickly in the bone marrow and can preve...