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While these cancers share similar cellular origins, they are different diseases that develop, present, progress—and affect patients—in substantially different ways. “Leukemia and lymphoma have some similarities, but more importantly, their differences demand they be treated as distinct entities,” says UCLA's Dinesh S.

Acute myelogenous leukemia is the most common kind of aggressive leukemia in adults. It can also affect children. This type of leukemia starts in the myeloid cells of the bone marrow and can spread quickly into the blood.

Leukemia and lymphoma are both types of cancer that affect white blood cells and the immune system. However, they differ in the way they affect the body. Treatment with chemotherapy, radiation therapy, and targeted therapy can all help manage these conditions and, in some cases, cure them.