Acute & chronic: AML is acute leukemia- treated with combination chemotherapies and plus minus bm transplant.It is a very serious & has to be treated right away.Cml is chronic leukemia.There are 3 phase in cml- chronic , accelerated and blastic phase ( acute leukemia). CML is treated with tageted therapy-oral tyrosine kinase inhibitor. In cml, the response & the rate of remission is very high w/ this therapy.
Answered 6/10/2014
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Acute / chronic: AML is acute myeloid leukemia which is a very aggressive leukemia that is rapidly progressive and requires intense chemotherapy. CML is chronic myeloid leukemia and can be treated with a type of medicine called a tyrosine kinase inhibitor.
Answered 6/10/2014
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