Acute myeloid leukemia(AML) is a type of blood cancer that start in bone marrow the soft inner part of bones. AML usually begins in the cells that are later transformed into white blood cells, but t can affect the other blood-forming cells, as well.
With acute form of AML, the bone marrow do not grow in the fashion in which it has to grow. These immature cells-blasts, build up in body. (For all types of cancer click here).
The other names for leukemia are:
- Acute myelocytic leukemia
- Acute myelogenous leukemia
- Acute granulocytic leukemia
- Acute non-lymphocytic leukemia
If you don't get medical treatment AML can be life threatening. It can spread quickly to your blood and to other parts of body: such as,
- Lymph nodes
- Liver
- Spleen
- Brain and Spinal cord
- Testicles
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