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.
Robin Williams' widow: 'It was not depression' that killed him. Susan Williams gives first interview since her husbandâs death last year and reveals the actor had a debilitating brain disease called Lewy body dementia. This article is 1 year old. Nigel M Smith in Los Angeles.