• Acute myeloid leukemia (AML) is a type of cancer that affects the bone marrow and the blood. It disrupts the normal bodily production of the white blood cells, red blood cells and platelets.
• Acute simply means it is fast growing, therefore fatal if not treated quickly. Myeloid refers to the lineage it comes from. As for AML, it is from the myeloid lineage. And lastly leukemia is the disease of the cancer of the blood cells from the bone marrow. AML are caused by various factors but primarily is due to the mutation. As for AML, there are 2 possibilities;
1. Mutation to the signaling pathway: Signaling pathway is the body’s form of communication. A disruption in the pathway would lead to wrong information being relayed. An example in AML
• Acute simply means it is fast growing, therefore fatal if not treated quickly. Myeloid refers to the lineage it comes from. As for AML, it is from the myeloid lineage. And lastly leukemia is the disease of the cancer of the blood cells from the bone marrow. AML are caused by various factors but primarily is due to the mutation. As for AML, there are 2 possibilities;
1. Mutation to the signaling pathway: Signaling pathway is the body’s form of communication. A disruption in the pathway would lead to wrong information being relayed. An example in AML