hairy cell leukemia

noun

1. a form of cancer in which abnormal cells with many hairlike cytoplasmic projections appear in the bone marrow, liver, spleen, and blood.

Example Sentences

Ira Pastan of the National Cancer Institute was awarded the Paul A. Volcker Career Achievement Medal for discovering “a breakthrough class of drugs to successfully treat a rare but deadly form of cancer, called hairy cell leukemia, in patients who have few other treatment options.”

From Washington Post

The 41-year-old Kelso High School art and ceramics teacher was diagnosed with hairy cell leukemia in April 2016.

From Washington Times

Hairy cell leukemia is a rare, slow-growing blood cancer.

From Washington Times

Hematopoietic stem cell origin of BRAFV600E mutations in hairy cell leukemia.

From Nature

In a 1990 story in the Health section of The Washington Post, he described his struggles with alcoholism and a rare form of cancer, hairy cell leukemia.

From Washington Post