Measuring WBCs

• The Basics
• Reactive
• Terms

• Acute Leukemia
• Dysplasia
• Myeloproliferative

• Acute
• Chronic 

Quiz Please

• AML is a difficult disease to treat and cures are rare.
• 15-30% are disease free at 5 years.
• Allogeneic bone marrow transplant is fast becoming the treatment of choice.
• Prognosis is linked to particular chromosomal abnormalities.
• Those with better outcomes:
• t(8;21) translocation and
• inversion of chromosme 16
• Those associated with a poor outcome:
• Philadelphia chromosme, t(9;22)
• t(11;23) tranloscation
• AML arising in the background of myelodysplastic syndrome.

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