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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Driving the news: The patient tested positive for HIV in 2009 and was diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia (AML) in 2015 — prompting a team at Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin to give him the stem cell transplant, per a statement from Europe's largest university hospital.
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Rebecca Falconer, Axios, 19 July 2024
The German man, who prefers to remain anonymous, was treated for acute myeloid leukemia, or AML, with a stem cell transplant in October 2015.
—Benjamin Ryan, NBC News, 18 July 2024
Multiple tests given to the German man were unable to detect any copies of the virus in his body following a stem cell transplant for acute myeloid leukemia that occurred in 2015, according to a report in NBC News.
—Mathew Rodriguez, Them, 18 July 2024
Blanchard’s mother, Dee Dee Blanchard, convinced everyone in their town that Gypsy struggled with leukemia, muscular dystrophy, and other ailments, forcing Gypsy into a wheelchair.
—Mariyam Muhammad, The Enquirer, 10 July 2024
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Rebecca Falconer, Axios, 19 July 2024
The German man, who prefers to remain anonymous, was treated for acute myeloid leukemia, or AML, with a stem cell transplant in October 2015.
—Benjamin Ryan, NBC News, 18 July 2024
Multiple tests given to the German man were unable to detect any copies of the virus in his body following a stem cell transplant for acute myeloid leukemia that occurred in 2015, according to a report in NBC News.
—Mathew Rodriguez, Them, 18 July 2024
Blanchard’s mother, Dee Dee Blanchard, convinced everyone in their town that Gypsy struggled with leukemia, muscular dystrophy, and other ailments, forcing Gypsy into a wheelchair.
—Mariyam Muhammad, The Enquirer, 10 July 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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