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Acute myeloid leukemia (AML) is a blood cancer that starts in the bone marrow. While chemotherapy is the most common treatment, recent developments have been made targeting specific mutations of the leukemia with alternate therapies, such as oral pills. Oncologist Firas El Chaer, MD, explains the disease and the types of care available at UVA.

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I'm Firas El Chaer. I focus on acute leukemias and chronic leukemias.

Acute myeloid leukemia is a form of blood cancer that affects the stem cells and our bone marrow.

Acute myeloid leukemia is most commonly treated with chemotherapy. However, over the course of the past few years, we have come to know that these leukemias have a lot of specific mutations, and some of those mutations can be targeted with very specific therapies. Some of those therapies are actually oral pills.

The first step is remission. The second step is, hopefully, a cure. Remission entails that the level of the leukemia cells in their body is at a very low level. In addition, their blood counts should have recovered at a point where they are independent of transfusions. This is what we call remission.

Acute leukemias, particularly acute myeloid leukemia, would be better treated at a large academic center because we have a whole team that can address those patients and their needs. The team usually consists of a pharmacist, a physician, a nurse, a care coordinator, a social worker, and many other members of the team.

Some of those patients will require bone marrow or stem cell transplant. Instead of having to go to another institution, we perform that procedure here.

Another reason why these patients would potentially have more options here at UVA because we have clinical trials addressing acute leukemias.

When patients with acute myeloid leukemia get diagnosed, they feel that this the end of the story. Providing them with that glimpse of hope and showing them that there's light at the end of the tunnel is extremely important.

"Four days later, it was confirmed by a different consultant in Haematology that I had acute myeloid leukaemia (AML). Kevin and I looked at each other and both asked at the same time if it was curable."

Gillian Rackley spent months visiting her GP and even a rheumatologist about her symptoms, but they were put down to a post-viral reaction.

In her story for #SpotLeukaemia, Gillian explains how her symptoms went undiagnosed for so long, and what the future holds for her now.

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Jennifer McNeer, MD, a pediatric hematologist at Comer Children's Hospital at the University of Chicago, shares how advanced diagnostic techniques help physicians to better characterize and treat each child's case of acute myeloid leukemia (AML). Learn more about the symptoms, diagnosis, and treatment options for childhood acute myeloid leukemia.
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"I did think it was weird, but at the same time I think I just got kind of used to telling myself: 'Oh it's just a bad winter', that sort of thing."

Georgina Rowley visited her GP a number of times during the latter half of 2019, but her constant infections were not seen as cause for concern.

Then, on New Year's Eve, a blood test finally gave the 19-year-old the answers she had been looking for – her symptoms were the result of acute myeloid leukaemia (AML).

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