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A type of cancer in which the bone marrow makes abnormal myeloblasts (a type of white bone marrow), red blood cells, or platelets.
AML is a disease in which the bone marrow produces white blood cells that cannot carry out normal function. Signs of the disease include bleeding gums, anemia, fatigue, fever, bone pain, and repeated infections.
A condition that occurs in which the infection-fighting white blood cells do not mature fast enough, leaving the body susceptible to anemia and infection.
most common adult leukemia. It is caused by rapid overproduction of undifferentiated bone marrow stem cells.
A progressive cancer that starts by the malignant transformation of an immature cell in the bone marrow. This affected cell usually is a primitive multipotential cell, meaning that its normal counterpart can give rise to a variety of blood cells. The transformed cell multiplies and accumulates in the marrow as leukemic myeloblasts. AML can occur at any age but increases exponentially in incidence after age 45 years. This leukemia can have a myriad of genetic alterations and the appearance of the leukemic cells can be represented by many different subtypes. Although several genetic changes, especially translocations of chromosomes, are relatively common, a large proportion of patients has uncommon or rare genetic changes. Other terms that are synonyms for AML include acute non-lymphocytic leukemia, acute myeloid leukemia, and acute myelocytic leukemia. (see Society booklet "Acute Myelogenous Leukemia")
Abbreviated AML. Also called acute myeloid leukemia or acute nonlymphocytic leukemia (ANLL). 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 , both types of white blood cells that fight infections. In AML, these blasts do not mature and so become too numerous. AML can occur in adults or children. See the entire definition of Acute myelogenous leukemia
type of blood cancer that involves accumulation of myeloid cells in the bone marrow and bloodstream.
AML. A quickly progressing disease in which too many immature white blood cells (not lymphocytes) are found in the blood and bone marrow. Also called acute myeloid leukemia or acute nonlymphocytic leukemia.
a cancer of the blood in which too many immature (not fully formed) granulocytes, a type of white blood cell, are found in the bone marrow and blood.
A type of leukemia in which cancer cells are found in the blood and bone marrow. AML affects the blasts that are developing into white blood cells called granulocytes. In AML, the blasts do not mature and become too numerous. These immature blast cells are then found in the blood and the bone marrow. AML is also called acute nonlymphocytic leukemia or ANLL. Learn more.
A cancer of the myelocytes, one of the white blood cells. AML occurs in all ages and is the more common acute leukemia in adults. AML affects a different type of white cells than those affected by ALL.
The Condition"...These include ... Exposure to chemotherapy used to treat cancers such as breast cancer, cancer of the ovary or the lymphomas..."
The Condition"...called "leukemic blasts" which fail to function as normal blood cells and 2) the blockade of the production of normal marrow cells, leading to a deficiency of red cells (anemia), and platelets ( thrombocytopenia) and normal white cells (especially neutrophils, i..."
