Acute lymphoid leukemia (ALL) is more common among Caucasians than among African-Americans, while acute myeloid leukemia (AML) affects both races equally.
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Acute myelocytic leukemia (AML) has a poorer prognosis rate than acute lymphocytic leukemias (ALL) and the chronic leukemias.
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Controversy exists as to whether myeloma and AML originate from a single haematopoietic progenitor or arise from different cell lineages.
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However, risk stratification of AML based on these methods is still incomplete.
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The patient with AML was receiving multiple transfusions of both red cells and platelets, and thus presented as a case of platelet refractoriness.