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.
Barry Gibb celebrates brothers he survived. Since 2003, Barry Gibb has lost two younger brothers, Robin and Maurice, both his bandmates in one of pop music's most celebrated trios. A third, Andy, another famous artist, died back in 1988, at just 30. And the eldest Gibb still talks to all three siblings â every night, he says.