Acute myeloid leukemia

Acute myeloid leukemia (AML), also known as acute myelogenous leukemia, is a cancer of the myeloid line of blood cells, ...

Acute myeloid leukemia
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Acute myeloid leukemia (AML) is 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.

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Acute myeloid leukemia, adult: A form of blood cancer resulting in the rapid proliferation of granulocytes and monocytes, red blood cells and platelets ...

Acute myeloid leukemia
Alternate Names : Acute myelogenous leukemia, AML, Acute granulocytic leukemia, Acute nonlymphocytic leukemia (ANLL), Leukemia - acute myeloid (AML), Leukemia - acute granulocytic, Leukemia - nonlymphocytic (ANLL) ...

Acute Myeloid Leukemia

Acute myeloid leukemia (AML) is a type of blood cancer. AML usually develops from cells that would turn into white blood cells (other than lymphocytes).

What Is Acute Myeloid Leukemia
Acute myeloid leukemia (AML), also known as acute myelogenous leukemia, acute non-lymphocytic leukemia, acute granulocytic leukemia and acute myelocytic leukemia, ...

ACUTE MYELOID LEUKEMIA OVERVIEW
Acute myeloid leukemia (AML) is a type of cancer of the blood. It affects a group of white blood cells called myeloid cells.

Acute myeloid leukemia (AML) is 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.
Acute means the disease develops quickly.

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Acute myeloid leukemia remains challenging to treat because only a few patients are strong enough to undergo the aggressive chemotherapy used to cure it.

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acute myeloid leukemia: AML. A quickly progressing disease in which too many immature blood-forming cells are found in the blood and bone marrow. Also called acute myelogenous leukemia or acute nonlymphocytic leukemia.

Acute myeloid leukemia (acute myelogenous leukemia, AML) accounts for about 10,600 new cases of leukemia each year. It occurs in both adults and children.

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Acute myeloid leukemia: A quickly progressive malignant disease in which there are too many immature blood-forming cells in the blood and bone marrow, the cells being specifically those destined to give rise to the granulocytes or monocytes, ...

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Acute myeloid leukemia (AML) is a cancer affecting white blood cells. AML may sometimes be called acute myelogenous leukemia, acute myelocytic leukemia, or acute nonlymphocytic leukemia.

Acute Myeloid Leukemia (AML) is the type that produces an excess number of white blood cells called myelocytes. This type is also more common in men than women. AML is not an inherited type of leukemia like the others are thought to be.

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In acute myeloid leukemia (AML), the myeloblasts reproduce rapidly and the disease worsens quickly.

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gemtuzumab (gem-TOO-zeh-mab) A monoclonal antibody combined with a toxic substance that is used to treat certain types of acute myeloid leukemia in older patients and is being studied in the treatment of other types of cancer.

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They include chronic myeloid leukemia (CML) and acute myeloid leukemia (AML), also called acute nonlymphocytic leukemia (ANLL). The lymphocytic leukemias affect the white blood cells that give rise to various types of lymphocytes.

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Acute myeloid leukemia (AML) occurs in both adults and children. This type of leukemia is sometimes called acute nonlymphocytic leukemia (ANLL).
Chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) most often affects adults over the age of 55.

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Also called acute myeloid leukemia or acute nonlymphocytic leukemia (ANLL).

An aggressive (fast-growing) type of acute myeloid leukemia in which there are too many immature blood-forming cells in the blood and bone marrow. It is usually marked by an exchange of parts of chromosomes 15 and 17.

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A large number of blasts in the bone marrow can lead to a type of blood cancer called acute myeloid leukemia (AML).
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Zarnestra (zar-NESS-truh)
A substance that is being studied in the treatment of acute myeloid leukemia (AML) and other types of cancer. It belongs to the family of drugs called farnesyltransferase inhibitors. Also called tipifarnib and R115777.

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occurs more often in people over 60, while Hodgkin lymphoma is more common in younger people (ages 15-35) and adults 55 and older. Multiple myeloma rarely occurs in people under 65.
Smoking increases risk of developing acute myeloid leukemia.

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