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Doctors’ Answers to “Frequently Asked Questions” – Acute Myelocytic Leukemia

These comments are made for the purpose of discussion and should NOT be used as recommendations for or against therapies or other treatments. An individual patient is always advised to consult their own physician.

AML

Question: I would like to know if there is any experimental procedures or new procedures for patient with AML. Any information would be helpful. I have a friend going for a bone marrow transplant. He is in the critical stage of AML.

Answer: In patients younger than thirty years bone marrow transplantation is the

treatment of choice after obtaining a first complete remission. There are no new procedures

for patients with AML at present.