leukaemia

/ luːˈkiːmɪə /

noun

1. an acute or chronic disease characterized by a gross proliferation of leucocytes, which crowd into the bone marrow, spleen, lymph nodes, etc, and suppress the blood-forming apparatus

Word History and Origins

Origin of leukaemia¹

C19: from leuco- + Greek haima blood

Example Sentences

Dr Abu Saada said there were children with leukaemia, people with breast and other cancers, as well as those disabled by the fighting.

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But Charlotte began to research her daughter's symptoms and approached her GP again - this time querying leukaemia, and they agreed to do some blood tests.

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"The treatment for leukaemia is very long and very gruelling and the first six weeks are particularly difficult," says Charlotte.

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Angela's daughter Johanna had been diagnosed with chronic myeloid leukaemia, a type of cancer which affects the white blood cells and bone marrow, at just 16 years old.

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She wrote a newspaper column, featured in a documentary about her work and was meeting celebrities like Robbie Williams to raise awareness of leukaemia.

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