A treatment-related mortality calculator based on the outcome of 3365 patients with newly diagnosed AML and submitted to intensive chemotherapy between 1986 and 2009 was published by Walter et al. The calculator, by means of a multiparametric analysis of age, platelet count, percentage of blasts in peripheral blood, albumin level, diagnosis of secondary AML, creatinine, white blood cells (WBC) and PS, was shown to predict the possibility of death within 28 days of induction for patients of all ages [8]. This evidence concerns the gene ALB and acute myeloid leukemia.