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 Williamsâ widow Susan reveals the real reason he committed suicide â and how he only had 3 years to live. Robin Williamsâ wife Susan Schneider has revealed her husband killed himself because he was suffering from debilitating brain disorder Lewy body dementia. After the late comic took his own life last year there was speculation that it was due to depression, but Susan claimed that was just a symptom of the disease.