What is AML- Acute Myelogenous Leukemia
Acute myelogenous leukemia (AML) is a blood disease of your blood. AML is when you do not have enough red and white blood cells. Another way to describe AML is that your blood grows Blasts which are a early type of white blood cell. It grows these blasts so fast that they basically push out all of the other white and red blood cells. If you have AML Leukemia you will not have enough red blood cells and not enough white blood cells because they are outnumbered.
AML is often a result of exposure to some sort of environmental toxin, such as benzene or radiation
Other names that you might hear for AML are Acute myeloblastic leukemia, acute myelocytic leukemia and acute nonlymphocytic leukemia.
