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.
And younger brother Andy Gibb -- who was not part of the group -- died at 30 from a heart infection. Robin Gibb's death followed by just three days the loss of another major star of the 1970s disco era -- Donna Summer, who died Thursday of lung cancer at 63.First Donna Summer passes and now another 70s icon, Robin Gibb of the Bee Gees passes, actress Marlee Matlin tweeted Sunday.obin Gibb, one of three brothers who made up the group the Bee Gees behind Saturday Night Fever and other now-iconic sounds from the 1970s, died on Sunday, according to a statement on his website.