2023年3月21日 · Acute myeloid leukemia (AML) is a rare cancer that affects your bone marrow and blood. It’s an aggressive cancer that, left untreated, may be life-threatening. AML typically affects people age 60 and older, but it can affect younger adults and children. Newer treatments are helping people to live longer with AML.

2024年12月20日 · Acute myelogenous leukemia, also called AML, is a cancer of the blood and bone marrow. Bone marrow is the soft matter inside bones where blood cells are made. The word "acute" in acute myelogenous leukemia means the disease tends to get worse quickly.

Acute myeloid leukemia (AML) has many other names, including acute myelocytic leukemia, acute myelogenous leukemia, acute granulocytic leukemia, and acute non-lymphocytic leukemia. Most often, AML develops in early forms of myeloid cells (see below) that would normally turn into white blood cells.

Acute myeloid leukemia (AML) is a cancer of the myeloid line of blood cells, characterized by the rapid growth of abnormal cells that build up in the bone marrow and blood and interfere with normal blood cell production. [1]

2024年4月27日 · Acute myeloid leukemia (AML) is a rapidly progressing myeloid neoplasm characterized by the clonal expansion of immature myeloid-derived cells, known as blasts, in the peripheral blood and bone marrow.

2025年2月28日 · Treatment options for adult acute myeloid leukemia (AML) include chemotherapy, radiation therapy, stem cell transplant, and other medications. Get detailed information about the treatment of new and recurrent AML in this expert-reviewed summary.

2024年6月18日 · Acute myeloid leukemia (AML) is cancer that starts inside bone marrow. This is the soft tissue in the center of bones that helps form all blood cells. The cancer grows from cells that would normally turn into white blood cells. Acute means the disease grows quickly and usually has an aggressive course.

2025年2月28日 · AML affects slightly more males than females, but roughly 0.5% of both will have an AML diagnosis in their lifetime. Between 2017 and 2021, the rate of new AML cases was 4.2 per 100,000 per year ...

Acute myeloid leukemia (AML) is the most common type of acute leukemia in adults. It tends to affect older people—the average age at diagnosis is 68—though it can also occur in adolescents and children.

2023年11月27日 · Acute myeloid leukemia (AML) is a type of acute leukemia. "Acute" means that the leukemia usually gets worse quickly if it's not treated. In AML, the bone marrow makes abnormal myeloblasts (a type of white blood cell), red blood cells, or platelets.