Childhood Acute Myeloid Leukemia (AML): Treatments
An aggressive (fast-growing) disease in which too many (immature that are not ) are found in the and blood.
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Treatments for Childhood Acute Myeloid Leukemia (AML)
There are different types of for children with (AML), (CML), juvenile myelomonocytic leukemia (JMML), or (MDS).
Different types of are available for children with AML, CML, JMML, or MDS. Some are standard (the currently used treatment), and some are being tested in . A treatment is a research study meant to help improve current treatments or obtain information on new treatments for patients with . When clinical trials show that a new treatment is better than the standard treatment, the new treatment may become the standard treatment.
Because in children is rare, taking part in a should be considered. Some are open only to patients who have not started …