What does AML stand for?

Results published in the November 2004 issue of Public Health Records suggested a link between breast-feeding and a lower risk of both acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL), the most common childhood cancer, and acute myeloblastic leukemia (AML).

4,5) There is an absence of other chromosomal abnormalities, including translocation t(1;22), an aberration usually found in acute myeloblastic leukemia patients without DS.

Doxorubicin has been used successfully to produce regression in disseminated neoplastic conditions such as acute lymphoblastic leukemia, acute myeloblastic leukemia, Wilms' tumor, neuroblastoma, soft tissue and bone sarcomas, breast carcinoma, ovarian carcinoma, transitional cell bladder carcinoma, thyroid carcinoma, gastric carcinoma, Hodgkin's disease, malignant lymphoma and bronchogenic carcinoma in which the small cell histologic type is the most responsive compared to other cell types.