Leukemia is an English word with synonyms like leukaemia or cancer. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Leukemia meaning
Any of a class of types of cancer affecting the blood cells, especially the white blood cells (usually with massive leukocytosis), and the blood cell–forming (hematopoietic) tissues.
Using Leukemia
- The main meaning on this page is: Any of a class of types of cancer affecting the blood cells, especially the white blood cells (usually with massive leukocytosis), and the blood cell–forming (hematopoietic) tissues.
- Useful related words include: leukaemia, leucaemia, cancer, malignant neoplastic disease.
- In the example corpus, leukemia often appears in combinations such as: of leukemia, leukemia and, with leukemia.
Context around Leukemia
- Average sentence length in these examples: 25.4 words
- Position in the sentence: 5 start, 9 middle, 6 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Leukemia
- In this selection, "leukemia" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 25.4 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, myeloid, lymphocytic, aggressive, survivor, aml and returned stand out and add context to how "leukemia" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include acute myeloid leukemia and acute lymphoblastic leukemia is 20. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "leukemia" sits close to words such as activision, adamawa and andrade, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with leukemia
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
He had leukemia, and a recent lung infection. (8 words)
The risk of acute myelogenous leukemia increases with age. (9 words)
But before he could enroll Ms. Barnes was diagnosed with leukemia. (11 words)
When people are aware of the disease, they will not mind to part with portion of their resources to help Leukemia patients so that the financial burden of treating or managing Leukemia is not entirely on the patients and their families alone. (42 words)
Jaziel Olmeda, 24, knows what it’s like to be a child with cancer, the kind of determination it takes to become a three-time leukemia survivor and how it feels to help save kids just like him. (38 words)
Paul, along with his brother Barry, are not exactly newcomers to music – they released To Me, To You (Bruv) – of course inspired by their Chucklevision catchphrase – with in 2014 to raise money for the African-Carribean Leukemia Trust. (38 words)
Example sentences (20)
Acute myeloid leukemia (AML) is the most common type of aggressive leukemia in adults, which has the lowest survival rate for all types of leukemia.
AbbVie and Swiss drug giant Roche Holding are jointly developing venetoclax, which is sold under the brand names Venclexta and Venclyxto and approved for indications in chronic lymphocytic leukemia and acute myeloid leukemia.
The child, Murad, was diagnosed with leukemia more than five years ago and went into remission, but unfortunately, the leukemia returned approximately six months ago.
They reconnected years later when Suleika was being treated for leukemia and got married in February 2022 after she was diagnosed with leukemia for a second time.
When people are aware of the disease, they will not mind to part with portion of their resources to help Leukemia patients so that the financial burden of treating or managing Leukemia is not entirely on the patients and their families alone.
Earlier (on June 1, 1968) Theodosius had been diagnosed with lymphocytic leukemia (a chronic form of leukemia), and had been given a few months to a few years to live.
In particular, acute lymphoblastic leukemia is 20 times more common and the megakaryoblastic form of acute myeloid leukemia is 500 times more common.
Antony Cotton and Brooke Vincent teamed up and visited the Haematology and Oncology ward and were able to meet children who were receiving treatment for cancer, leukemia and non-malignant blood disorders.
Bernama reported that aside from leading to lymphoma and leukemia, ethylene oxide can also seriously irritate the skin and eyes of those who come into contact with the substance and can even trigger birth and hereditary defects.
But before he could enroll Ms. Barnes was diagnosed with leukemia.
Diagnosed with leukemia, Tinkov now lives in Switzerland, according to the It is unclear whether he has Swiss citizenship.
He experienced a relapse in his fight against leukemia last spring and has been under treatment at University Hospital’s Seidman Cancer Center.
He had leukemia, and a recent lung infection.
He said there are around 160 new pediatric cancer cases every year, the most common of which is leukemia, which makes up 40 percent of total cases, followed by brain cancer.
Jaziel Olmeda, 24, knows what it’s like to be a child with cancer, the kind of determination it takes to become a three-time leukemia survivor and how it feels to help save kids just like him.
Nikhil Autar, a health entrepreneur and leukemia survivor, is NSW’s Young Australian of the Year.
Paul, along with his brother Barry, are not exactly newcomers to music – they released To Me, To You (Bruv) – of course inspired by their Chucklevision catchphrase – with in 2014 to raise money for the African-Carribean Leukemia Trust.
Reports reveal that back in 2011 it was known that she was diagnosed with rare form of acute myeloid leukemia.
Some 70 percent were positive for benzene, a known carcinogen that is strongly linked to leukemia and other blood disorders.
The risk of acute myelogenous leukemia increases with age.
Common combinations with leukemia
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- of leukemia 33×
- leukemia and 33×
- with leukemia 32×
- myeloid leukemia 17×
- the leukemia 14×
- from leukemia 11×
- leukemia in 10×
- for leukemia 8×
- leukemia is 6×
- and leukemia 6×