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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Those drugs include insulin to treat diabetes, blood thinners to prevent clots, as well as a drug to treat leukemia and lymphoma, and treatments for autoimmune arthritis, psoriasis, Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis.
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Kristen Jordan Shamus, Detroit Free Press, 1 Nov. 2024
In 2018, a federal jury ruled that Jacobs Engineering had failed to provide the workers with adequate protective gear and exposed them to coal ash in concentrations likely capable of causing lung cancer, skin cancer, leukemia, and coronary artery disease, among other illnesses.
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Grammy-winning singer Jack Jones, the voice behind the iconic theme song for The Love Boat, died Wednesday following a battle with leukemia.
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The lingering residues can lead to certain health problems like brain cancer, leukemia, Alzheimer's, and Parkinson’s Disease, Subash said.
—Ahjané Forbes, USA TODAY, 16 Oct. 2024
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Kristen Jordan Shamus, Detroit Free Press, 1 Nov. 2024
In 2018, a federal jury ruled that Jacobs Engineering had failed to provide the workers with adequate protective gear and exposed them to coal ash in concentrations likely capable of causing lung cancer, skin cancer, leukemia, and coronary artery disease, among other illnesses.
—Jared Sullivan, TIME, 30 Oct. 2024
Grammy-winning singer Jack Jones, the voice behind the iconic theme song for The Love Boat, died Wednesday following a battle with leukemia.
—Michael Ausiello, TVLine, 24 Oct. 2024
The lingering residues can lead to certain health problems like brain cancer, leukemia, Alzheimer's, and Parkinson’s Disease, Subash said.
—Ahjané Forbes, USA TODAY, 16 Oct. 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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