Long term survivors of AML have chronic health risks related to their previous therapy:
Chemotherapy related long-term complication in survivors of AML:
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The most serious late effects in survivors of AML occur in those treated with bone marrow transplant.
There are many long term health risks after BMT. In one single institution review there was a very high incidence of late effects in survivors of AML - but these were largely related to transplant (Leung et al).
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