Acute Myeloid Leukemia

Adult acute myeloid leukemia is a serious cancer of the blood. This disease is also referred to as acute myelogenous leukemia. This leukemia is specifically a cancer of the myeloid line of white blood cells. This leukemia is characterized by the swift increase of abnormal cells that build up in bone marrow and disrupt normal cell production. Acute myeloid leukemia is the greatest occurrence of leukemia types in the adult leukemia population. Adult acute myeloid leukemia is rare – approximately one percent of cancer deaths in the United States are caused by AML.