Acute myelogenous 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 myelogenous leukemia: A clonal expansion of myeloid blasts in the bone marrow, blood or other tissues. The classification of acute myeloid leukemias (AMLs) encompasses four major categories: 1) AML with recurrent genetic abnormalities 2) AML with multilineage dysplasia 3) Therapy-related AML 4) AML not otherwise categorized. The required bone marrow or peripheral blood blast percentage for the diagnosis of AML has been recently reduced from 30% (French-American-British [FAB] classification) to 20% (WHO classification). (WHO, 2001) -- 2003
Source: Diseases Database
Acute myelogenous leukemia: acute leukemia arising from myeloid tissue in which the granular, polymorphonuclear leukocytes and their precursors predominate.
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These medical condition or symptom topics may be relevant to medical information for Acute myelogenous leukemia:
Acute myelogenous 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 myelogenous leukemia, or a subtype of Acute myelogenous leukemia,
affects less than 200,000 people in the US population.
Source - National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Acute myelogenous leukemia: Another name for Acute myelocytic leukemia (or close medical condition association).
»Introduction: Acute myelocytic leukemia
»Symptoms of Acute myelocytic leukemia
Some of the symptoms of Acute myelogenous leukemia incude:
See full list of 25 symptoms of Acute myelogenous leukemia (Acute myelocytic leukemia)
Source: Diseases Database
Source - NIH
Source - CRISP
Source: CRISP
Source: CRISP
Source: Diseases Database
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