Acute myelocytic leukemia (medical condition): A cancer of the blood-forming tissues of the bone marrow involving the proliferation of cells that normally develop into infection-fighting cells such as eosinophils, monocytes, basophils and neutrophils. The cancerous cells replace the normal bone marrow cells. Acute leukemia involves a more rapid proliferation of cancer cells compared to chronic forms of leukemia.
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Acute myelocytic leukemia:
»Introduction: Acute myelocytic leukemia
»Symptoms of Acute myelocytic leukemia
Acute myelocytic leukemia: A malignant cancer of blood-forming tissues resulting in a high number of immature leukocytes. Symptoms include soft bleeding gums, anemia, fatigue, fever, dyspnea, moderate splenomegaly, joint and bone pains and frequent infections. Also called acute granulocytic leukemia, acute myelogenous leukemia, acute nonlymphocytic leukemia, myeloid leukemia, splenomedullary leukemia, splenomyelogenous leukemia.
Acute myelocytic leukemia: acute leukemia characterized by proliferation of granular leukocytes; most common in adolescents and young adults.
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These medical condition or symptom topics may be relevant to medical information for Acute myelocytic leukemia:
Acute myelocytic leukemia is listed as a "rare disease" by the Office of
Rare Diseases (ORD) of the National Institutes of Health
(NIH). This means that Acute myelocytic leukemia, or a subtype of Acute myelocytic leukemia,
affects less than 200,000 people in the US population.
Source - National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Acute myelocytic leukemia (medical condition): See Acute myelocytic leukemia (disease information).
»Introduction: Acute myelocytic leukemia
»Symptoms of Acute myelocytic leukemia
Source - WordNet 2.1
Source - WordNet 2.1
Source: CRISP
The following list attempts to classify Acute myelocytic leukemia into categories where each line is subset of the next.
Source: WordNet 2.1
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