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.
Bee Gees singer Robin Gibb dies. Robin Gibb, singer with the legendary band the Bee Gees, has died at 62 after a lengthy battle with cancer, his family says. Gibb, who had undergone intestinal surgery, notched up dozens of hits with brothers Maurice, his twin, and Barry - as performers and writers - and sold more than 200 million records.