can the fatal effects of leukemia progress more rapidly than all the other symptoms and routine checkups that normally provide a clue about such an illness?
Yes, I don’t know the exact statistic , but a substantial amount of the diagnoses of many illness, leukemia included, comes about as seeking care for a complication of the illness, not knowing they have the underlying condition.
AML is very fast moving. At diagnosis my platelets were 7, I needed 2 bags of blood, and my wbc’s had saturated my blood. Had I fallen, it could have caused internal bleeding, brain bleed/stroke..etc. I never even heard of AML, nevertheless knew how fast moving and how lethal it was, until it happened to me.