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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Kirk was open about Ben’s health issues, sharing on X (formerly Twitter) in September 2024 that he was diagnosed with leukemia several months earlier in March.
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His son Joseph said the death was from complications of leukemia.
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He was later selected No. 1 in the NFL draft but never played an NFL game, as he was diagnosed with leukemia and died in March 1963.
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Caden was in the fifth grade at Sycamore Ridge School when he was first diagnosed with leukemia, a terrible shock for the entire family.
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Francesca Gariano, People.com, 30 Nov. 2024
His son Joseph said the death was from complications of leukemia.
—Clay Risen, New York Times, 28 Nov. 2024
He was later selected No. 1 in the NFL draft but never played an NFL game, as he was diagnosed with leukemia and died in March 1963.
—The Arizona Republic, 27 Nov. 2024
Caden was in the fifth grade at Sycamore Ridge School when he was first diagnosed with leukemia, a terrible shock for the entire family.
—Karen Billing, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Nov. 2024
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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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