There are two phases of treatment for AML. The first phase is called induction therapy. The purpose of induction therapy is to kill as many of the leukemia cells as possible and induce a remission, a state in which there is no visible evidence of disease and blood counts are normal.
Bee Gees singer Robin Gibb died of kidney failure, not cancer as was widely reported, his son Robin John has said. The popstarâs son revealed: âIt wasnât the cancer that killed my father; those reports are wrong.
Actor Michael J. Fox was stunned to learn Robin Williams battled Parkinson's disease.Fox tweeted his response today after Williams' wife, Susan Schneider, released a statement saying her husband was in the early stages of Parkinson's disease.ox was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease in 1991, according to his foundation. He disclosed his condition seven years later. Read: Robin Williams Was in 'Early Stages of Parkinson's Disease'. Read: Actor Robin Williams Is Dead at 63 of Suspected Suicide.