AML, or acute myeloid leukemia, and lymphoma are cancers of the immune system that develop in blood-forming stem cells produced in bone marrow. According to the National Cancer Institute, these stem cells divide into myeloid cells and lymphoid...
Gingeval tissue surrounds the roots of teeth. On rare occasions, this tissue becomes abnormally large, a condition known as gingival hyperplasia. The enlargement does not result from cancerous malignancy, but from excessive growth of normal...
Leukemia is a disease of white blood cells. Acute myelogenous leukemia, or AML, is the most common type of adult leukemia, the Oncology Channel states. AML is sometimes called acute myeloid or myeloblastic leukemia. AML affects blast cells, which...
Your bone marrow makes immature cells called stem cells; these develop into a myeloid stem cell or a lymphoid stem cell. The myeloid cells develop into red blood cells, myeloblasts and platelets. These myeloblasts turn into white blood cells that...
