BETA - Where is acute myeloid leukemia located in my body?

Where is AML located in my body? AML develops in the bone marrow. Again, the bone marrow is the factory that is producing all the blood cells. And when the bone marrow is producing the leukemia cells that leads to the diagnosis of acute myeloid leukemia, those leukemia cells are then pushed out into the blood. So the cells originate in the bone marrow, but they're all over the blood by the time the diagnosis is made. I think it is tough for people to wrap their head around that this is a cancer that's in your blood. So wherever the blood is, cancer is there. And again, that goes back to AML as a presence or absence. It's either there or it's gone or leaving. So I think once patients are starting to walk the journey, they understand it more because we tend to educate them along the way. The more they understand about when the blood is low, we have to have our blood replaced. The more they understand that it's a cancer of the blood forming organs and it really can impact so many different things. When your hemoglobin is low and your oxygen to the tissues is low, that can cause pain and shortness of breath and headaches and vision changes. And when your white blood cell count is low or sometimes too high, that can cause infectious issues. So I think as patients walk the journey, they understand that the leukemia is in the blood.