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.
In interviews with People magazine and with ABC News, the widow, Susan Schneider Williams, laid the blame for her husbandâs suicide in 2014 not on depression but on diffuse Lewy body dementia. âIt was not depression that killed Robin,â Mrs. Williams said in the People magazine interview.