leukemia
noun
leu·ke·mia
lü-ˈkē-mē-ə 
: an acute or chronic disease in humans and other warm-blooded animals characterized by an abnormal increase in the number of white blood cells in the tissues and often in the blood
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The first such drug, known as CAR-T-cell therapy, received F.D.A. approval in 2017, as a treatment for leukemia.
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He was diagnosed with chronic myeloid leukemia in May 2019 but amazingly missed only three months out of the season to undergo treatments.
—David Faris, Newsweek, 3 Feb. 2025
Carrasco was diagnosed with chronic myeloid leukemia during the 2019 season.
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Drugs with hefty markups included imatinib, a generic drug (brand name Gleevec) used to treat chronic myeloid leukemia and lamivudine, prescribed to HIV patients (brand name Epivir).
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Nicola Twilley, The New Yorker, 3 Feb. 2025
He was diagnosed with chronic myeloid leukemia in May 2019 but amazingly missed only three months out of the season to undergo treatments.
—David Faris, Newsweek, 3 Feb. 2025
Carrasco was diagnosed with chronic myeloid leukemia during the 2019 season.
—Gary Phillips, New York Daily News, 3 Feb. 2025
Drugs with hefty markups included imatinib, a generic drug (brand name Gleevec) used to treat chronic myeloid leukemia and lamivudine, prescribed to HIV patients (brand name Epivir).
—Joshua P. Cohen, Forbes, 19 Jan. 2025
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leukemia
noun
leu·ke·mia
lü-ˈkē-mē-ə
: a disease of warm-blooded animals including human beings that is a kind of cancer in which there is an abnormal increase in the number of white blood cells in the tissues and often in the blood
Medical Definition
leukemia
noun
leu·ke·mia
lü-ˈkē-mē-ə
variants
also leucemia
or chiefly British leukaemia
also leucaemia
lü-ˈkē- also lü-ˈsē-
: an acute or chronic disease of unknown cause in humans and other warm-blooded animals that involves the blood-forming organs, is characterized by an abnormal increase in the number of white blood cells in the tissues of the body with or without a corresponding increase of those in the circulating blood, and is classified according to the type of white blood cell most prominently involved see acute lymphoblastic leukemia, acute myelogenous leukemia, chronic lymphocytic leukemia, chronic myelogenous leukemia, feline leukemia, lymphoblastic leukemia, lymphocytic leukemia, monocytic leukemia, myelogenous leukemia, promyelocytic leukemia
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