Acute myeloid leukemia is a type of cancer where the bone marrow makes abnormal myeloblasts, a type of white blood cell. Medtech THAI STUDIO LAB 249/Shutterstock.com November 29, 2017 Acute myeloid leukaemia: researchers zero in on treatment options for aggressive blood cancer Connor Sweeney, University of Oxford and Catherine Garnett, University of Oxford AML can kill with surprising rapidity. Luckily new treatments are on the horizon.