Around 60% of cases are in children. Acute myelogenous leukemia (AML) is more common in adults than children and is more likely to affect males than females. Overall, however, it is rare.

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Relapse of acute myeloid leukemia (AML) is highly aggressive and often treatment refractory. We analyzed previously published AML relapse cohorts and found that 40% of relapses occur without changes ...

Acute myeloid leukemia (AML) is a heterogeneous disease characterized by malignant proliferation of myeloid hematopoietic stem/progenitor cells. NPM1 represents the most frequently mutated gene in AML ...

Haploidentical stem cell transplantation (haplo-SCT), an alternative donor source, offers a curative therapy for patients with acute myeloid leukemia (AML) who are transplant candidates. Advances in ...

Acute myeloid leukemia (AML) and chronic myeloid leukemia (CML) have key differences. The speed of disease progression in CML vs. AML is one way the two conditions are distinct, but they also differ ...

Corresponding author: Ayalew Tefferi, MD, Division of Hematology, Department of Medicine, Mayo Clinic, 200 First St SW, Rochester, MN 55905; e-mail: [email protected]. If you have the appropriate ...

For leukemia immunophenotyping, cells isolated from spleen and bone marrow (as described above) were incubated with phycoerythrin-conjugated (PE) antibodies to CD3, Mac1 or c-kit (Caltag ...