Leroy Satchel Paige was the longtime Negro League star who eventually received his due in the majors. He reportedly got his nickname working as a baggage porter in Mobile, Ala., where he became a satchel tree by carrying several bags at once. Satchel, the man, was literally ageless.
The diagnosis of AML requires the identification of 20% or more leukemic blasts in the bone marrow. Further analysis then must separate AML from acute lymphoblastic leukemia by showing evidence for commitment to the myeloid lineage.
About 15. to 20 percent of cases of acute childhood leukemia and 80 percent of cases of acute. adult leukemia are AML. The risk for developing AML increases about 10-fold from ages 30 to 34 years. (about 1 case per 100,000 people) to ages 65 to 69 years (about 10 cases per.