What is Acute Myelogenous Leukemia? Acute myelogenous leukemia (AML) is also known as acute myeloid leukaemia (AML). It is a blood and bone marrow (the spongy tissue inside the bones where blood cells are formed) cancer. It arises most frequently from cells that will...
What is Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia? Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia (ALL) is a malignant (cancerous) disease of the bone marrow in which lymphoblasts (immature white blood cells) proliferate and replace the normal hematopoietic (stem cells involved in the process of...
What is Acute Megakaryoblastic Leukemia? Acute megakaryoblastic leukemia (AMKL) is life-threatening cancer, with abnormally proliferating malignant megakaryoblasts, which damages multiple tissues. A megakaryoblast is a precursor cell to a promegakaryocyte, which...
What is Acute Monoblastic Leukemia? Acute Monoblastic Leukemia is an uncontrolled (rapidly-growing) disease, in which the bone marrow and blood contain too many monoblasts (immature white blood cells that are not lymphoblastic). These cells crowd the bone marrow,...
What is penile carcinoma? Penile cancer is a rare cancer which accounts for around 0.4 percent of all malignancies. It starts when the cells on the penis begin to grow out of control. The term penile cancer is used to describe one of several types of cancer that...
