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Acute Myeloid Leukemia (AML) in Adults

Acute myeloid leukemia is also called acute myelocytic leukemia, acute myelogenous leukemia, acute granulocytic leukemia, acute non-lymphocytic leukemia, or sometimes just AML. It is most common in older people. For information on AML in children, see Leukemia
in Children
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