Survival Rates and Outlook for Acute Myeloid Leukemia
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Prognosis and related stories
Risk factors include smoking , previous chemotherapy or radiation therapy , myelodysplastic syndrome , and exposure to the chemical benzene. AML, typically is initially treated with chemotherapy aimed at inducing remission. AML affected about one million people globally in and resulted in , deaths. Most signs and symptoms of AML are caused by the replacement of normal blood cells with leukemic cells. A lack of normal white blood cell production makes people more susceptible to infections; while the leukemic cells themselves are derived from white blood cell precursors, they have no infection-fighting capacity.