Leroy Satchel Paige was the longtime Negro League star who eventually received his due in the majors. He reportedly got his nickname working as a baggage porter in Mobile, Ala., where he became a satchel tree by carrying several bags at once. Satchel, the man, was literally ageless.
The diagnosis of AML requires the identification of 20% or more leukemic blasts in the bone marrow. Further analysis then must separate AML from acute lymphoblastic leukemia by showing evidence for commitment to the myeloid lineage.
AML may be called by other names, including acute myelogenous leukemia, acute. myelocytic leukemia, acute myeloblastic leukemia and acute granulocytic leukemia. About 12,950 new cases of AML were expected to be diagnosed in the United. States in 2011. As of January 2008 an estimated 30,993 people were living with.