There are two phases of treatment for AML. The first phase is called induction therapy. The purpose of induction therapy is to kill as many of the leukemia cells as possible and induce a remission, a state in which there is no visible evidence of disease and blood counts are normal.
Bee Gees singer Robin Gibb died of kidney failure, not cancer as was widely reported, his son Robin John has said. The popstarâs son revealed: âIt wasnât the cancer that killed my father; those reports are wrong.
Jive talking: Robin, Maurice and Barry Gibb (left to right) in 1978. Barry has an abiding sadness that his relationship with Maurice and Robin deteriorated to the point where he feels they were no longer friends. âMauriceâs death in 2003 and Robinâs last year had been a huge trauma for me and everyone in our family.