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 new approach delves into differentiation therapy, a treatment that makes acute promyelocytic leukemia highly treatable.
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In addition, leukemia and pancreatic and liver cancers have risen.
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But that didn't change the fact that their son, then just over 1 year old, had leukemia.
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Noah Lyons, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Oct. 2025
In addition, leukemia and pancreatic and liver cancers have risen.
—Ari Daniel, NPR, 22 Oct. 2025
But that didn't change the fact that their son, then just over 1 year old, had leukemia.
—Zoey Lyttle, PEOPLE, 22 Oct. 2025
Based on the excellent 1990 play of the same name, this drama stars Keaton as a woman dying of leukemia in a film that also features Meryl Streep and Robert De Niro.
—Brian Tallerico, Vulture, 14 Oct. 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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