Subsequently, in 2001, Gajate and Mollinedo3 found that the recruitment and aggregation of Fas/CD95 death receptors in the plasma membrane lipid rafts of these cancer cells induced the apoptosis of these human acute T‐cell leukaemia Jurkat cells and acute myeloid leukaemia HL‐60 cells upon treatment with edelfosine. This evidence concerns the gene FAS and acute myeloid leukemia.