How to Use myelogenous leukemia in a Sentence

myelogenous leukemia

noun
  • The cause was acute myelogenous leukemia, a form of blood cancer, said a niece Alison Tweedie-Perry.
    Washington Post, 8 June 2021
  • In March 2017, she was diagnosed with acute myelogenous leukemia.
    New York Times, 15 Feb. 2022
  • At only 8 weeks old, she was diagnosed with a rare, aggressive form of leukemia known as acute myelogenous leukemia (AML).
    Claire Gillespie, Health.com, 26 Apr. 2021
  • In 2017, Paul was diagnosed with acute myelogenous leukemia.
    Washington Post, 4 Jan. 2021
  • A couple of months later, she was diagnosed with acute myelogenous leukemia.
    Bryan Marquard, BostonGlobe.com, 4 July 2023
  • Druker’s research led to Gleevec, which treats chronic myelogenous leukemia.
    San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Aug. 2019
  • The underlying primary cause of death was recorded as acute myelogenous leukemia, a type of blood and bone marrow cancer.
    Tracy Brown, Los Angeles Times, 9 Sep. 2023
  • The life lessons taught by his dad Vincent, who died last November on his 80th birthday from chronic myelogenous leukemia, will always stay with Stonestreet.
    Julie Jordan, PEOPLE.com, 9 Mar. 2022
  • The primary type, which was listed as a sequential underlying cause, was determined to be acute myelogenous leukemia.
    Stephanie Wenger, Peoplemag, 8 Sep. 2023
  • One of the early beneficiaries of these affirmative action policies was a black woman, one of six siblings born to a single mother and raised in poverty and who died when only 47 years old from acute myelogenous leukemia.
    Uche Blackstock, Twin Cities, 28 Nov. 2019
  • Acute myeloid leukemia has quite a few different names: acute myelocytic leukemia, acute myelogenous leukemia, acute granulocytic leukemia, and acute non-lymphocytic leukemia, according to the ACS.
    Barbara Brody, Health.com, 30 Sep. 2021
  • The existing therapies for chronic myelogenous leukemia were priced similarly.
    WIRED, 4 Sep. 2023

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