Leukaemia in a sentence as a noun

It's not big news because these tumours are quite rare, and treatment for leukaemia/lymphoma has always worked better than for solid tumours.

But I would much prefer resources are allocated to illnesses where they're only treatable for so long before you die, like you know cancer and leukaemia.

The risk of leukaemia does not appear to be raised, even among the hundreds of thousands of recovery workers sent to clean up the environmental contamination.

"Can I reduce my child's risk of acute lymphoblastic leukaemia?The evidence isn't well enough established to suggest definitive recommendations that will reduce risk of child leukaemia.[...

I think you could make a good case that orphans with leukaemia are a stereotypical example of a utility monster, where the moral halo around them leads our society to waste tons of resources that would go much further doing something unglamorous like, say, free mass vitamin D supplementation.

Yes - sort of - that's what the paper is about essentially - it details a gene therapy approach where T cells are removed, taught how to recognise surface antigens for leukaemia cells and re-injected into the body, leading in 3 weeks to a complete clearance of his CLL which he had had for 13 years and which was close to killing him.

Leukaemia definitions

noun

malignant neoplasm of blood-forming tissues; characterized by abnormal proliferation of leukocytes; one of the four major types of cancer

See also: leukemia leucaemia