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.
There were 2866 cases with AML, including 99 with APL, 408 with acute lymphoblastic leukemia, and 97 with acute undifferentiated/unclassified leukemia. This corresponds to 98% of all patients with acute leukemia in the Swedish Cancer Registry. Missing patients had a similar age and sex distribution as patients in the Leukemia Registry. The current report is thus based on 2767 patients with non-APL AML.