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Can You Get Cancer From Being Uncircumcised As A Adult?
Acute myeloid leukemia (AML) is cancer that starts inside bone marrow, the soft tissue inside bones that helps form blood cells. The cancer grows from cells that would normally turn into white blood cells.
Acute means the disease develops quickly.
See also:
Chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) Chronic myelogenous leukemia (CML) Leukemia
Alternative Names
Acute myelogenous leukemia; AML; Acute granulocytic leukemia; Acute nonlymphocytic leukemia (ANLL); Leukemia - acute myeloid (AML); Leukemia...
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