How to Use leukemia in a Sentence

leukemia

noun
  • But within three to six years half the subjects developed leukemia, and one died.
    Tanya Lewis, Scientific American, 18 Oct. 2021
  • Fuller Goldsmith died on Tuesday after a long battle with leukemia.
    Caitlin O'Kane, CBS News, 8 Oct. 2021
  • In February, Goldsmith shared that the leukemia had returned.
    Ashley Boucher, PEOPLE.com, 6 Oct. 2021
  • Goldsmith was diagnosed with acute lymphoplastic leukemia at the age of 3.
    NBC News, 7 Oct. 2021
  • Three months into this new relationship, I was diagnosed with a fierce and often fatal leukemia.
    Delia Ephron, Vogue, 26 Sep. 2024
  • In February, Goldsmith shared on his Instagram that his leukemia had returned.
    J. Kim Murphy, Variety, 6 Oct. 2021
  • Beloved young chef and Food Network star Fuller Goldsmith died at the age of 17 this week after a long battle with leukemia.
    Carolyn L. Todd, SELF, 7 Oct. 2021
  • Bluebird Bio’s own investigation found that the leukemia was unlikely to be related to gene therapy.
    Tanya Lewis, Scientific American, 18 Oct. 2021
  • Another specialty drug used to help manage complications of leukemia can cost patients upward of $6,800 per month.
    Richard Adams, Forbes, 13 Oct. 2021
  • The cause was leukemia, said his wife, Cindy Lou Black.
    New York Times, 24 June 2022
  • Raisa, his wife of forty-six years, had died, of leukemia, in 1999.
    Masha Gessen, The New Yorker, 31 Aug. 2022
  • Their son, Cole, died in May of acute myeloid leukemia at age 11.
    Ed Wittenberg, cleveland, 6 Sep. 2023
  • Te’o was then led to believe that Kekua had died of leukemia.
    Joe Otterson, Variety, 4 Oct. 2022
  • Her cause of death, according to The New York Times, was leukemia.
    Ingrid Vasquez, Peoplemag, 28 Mar. 2023
  • Among the group, the lawsuit says, was a 12-year-old girl who died of leukemia in Pakistan in March.
    Dan Lamothe, BostonGlobe.com, 21 Sep. 2022
  • When White was 10, her brother's friend, who was 27, died of leukemia.
    Abe Streep, Scientific American, 10 Nov. 2023
  • One Match helps match leukemia patients with stem cell donors.
    Jon Stojan, USA TODAY, 20 June 2023
  • Long-term exposure to high amounts of benzene in the air is known to cause leukemia.
    Colleen Stinchcombe, SELF, 1 Dec. 2021
  • Then that summer, another big blow: the start of a long battle with leukemia that pushed him to the brink.
    Kyle Newman, The Denver Post, 15 Feb. 2024
  • Benzene has also been linked to leukemia, a cancer of the blood and bone marrow.
    Korin Miller, Health.com, 3 Dec. 2021
  • Cotton with non-Hodgkin lymphoma, and his father with a type of leukemia.
    Jamie Ducharme, Time, 16 Nov. 2022
  • That changed at age 8 when he was diagnosed with leukemia.
    Felicia Alvarez, Los Angeles Times, 25 June 2022
  • The cause was a recurrence of leukemia, with which she was first diagnosed in 2012.
    Corinne Purtill, Los Angeles Times, 5 July 2023
  • This approach does not translate well for T cell acute leukemia.
    William A. Haseltine, Forbes, 13 Feb. 2023
  • Roe Roe was just three years old when she was diagnosed with leukemia.
    Meghan Overdeep, Southern Living, 31 May 2024
  • Her friend Kathy Lette, an Australian novelist, said the cause was leukemia.
    Penelope Green, New York Times, 29 Oct. 2022
  • His manager, Jonathan Brill, said the cause of Mr. Davis’s death, in a hospital, was leukemia.
    Adam Nossiter, New York Times, 27 Apr. 2024
  • For fludarabine, used in leukemia, the shortage grew from 11% to 45% four months later.
    Elizabeth Cooney, STAT, 5 Oct. 2023
  • A few years ago Maejor, now 33, was diagnosed with rare form of leukemia.
    Todd Spangler, Variety, 13 Dec. 2021
  • So much so that new cases of leukemia, lymphoma, and myeloma accounted for an estimated 9.4% of new cancer cases in the United States last year.
    Elizabeth Millard, Cpt, SELF, 15 Aug. 2024

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